On Apr 29, blm@halcyon.com said: >The difference is that false and "" are indistinguishable here, but false >and 0 aren't. Ah ha. Bah. :) Why doesn't Perl return 0 for false in logic cases like this? That often boggles me. -- MIDN 4/C PINYAN, NROTCURPI, US Naval Reserve japhy@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ http://pinyaj.stu.rpi.edu/ PerlMonth - An Online Perl Magazine http://www.perlmonth.com/ The Perl Archive - Articles, Forums, etc. http://www.perlarchive.com/ ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe