Re: Multiple numeric not or compare in if statement

in reply to Multiple numeric not or compare in if statement

The above code is wrong, is bad, works sometimes. I know this is wrong.

You didn't say in which way it should be wrong. It is not wrong, though it might do something different from your expectations.

$sender_transaction_type !~ /3|21/
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This is true, if $sender_transaction_type does not contain the digit 3 or the digit sequence 21. For e.g. "35" or "421" it is false. Maybe you expected it to check for equal / not equal, which it doesn't. But it's not wrong.

To check if a string is not in a given set, you may use this expression:

$sender_transaction_type !~ /^(?:3|21)$/
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But keep in mind that these are string operations where "3", "3e0" and "3." are all different, contrary to their numerical equality.

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-jo

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Re^2: Multiple numeric not or compare in if statement by choroba (Cardinal) on Jul 02, 2020 at 14:38 UTC
Also note that "2\n" matches the regex. If you don't want that, use `\z` instead of `$`. `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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