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| author | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2004-12-21 11:58:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2004-12-21 11:58:53 +0000 |
| commit | 8886331dd4b839d5227a0a7455922ad41c74f30f (patch) | |
| tree | fe74d163924e63aba8196621575e9cd6ec39063c /pod/perltrap.pod | |
| parent | c6ac9eb3861eefd893b4bd762866c9a4f6f7b6e1 (diff) | |
| download | perl-8886331dd4b839d5227a0a7455922ad41c74f30f.tar.gz | |
Note that the shell's test uses eq etc for numbers, = etc for
strings, the reverse of Perl, which is definitely a trap.
Spotted by Alexei Alexandrov.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@23663
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diff --git a/pod/perltrap.pod b/pod/perltrap.pod index d8f667c736..0ad0086a59 100644 --- a/pod/perltrap.pod +++ b/pod/perltrap.pod @@ -267,6 +267,13 @@ The arguments are available via @ARGV, not $1, $2, etc. The environment is not automatically made available as separate scalar variables. +=item * + +The shell's C<test> uses "=", "!=", "<" etc for string comparisons and "-eq", +"-ne", "-lt" etc for numeric comparisons. This is the reverse of Perl, which +uses C<eq>, C<ne>, C<lt> for string comparisons, and C<==>, C<!=> C<< < >> etc +for numeric comparisons. + =back =head2 Perl Traps |