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creamygoodness
<p>Seems like <c>ne ""</c> is what I was looking for. :)
<p>The <c>!!</c> construct won't work because certain strings with lengths can be false:
<c>
marvin@smokey:~ $ perl -le 'print "true" if !!"0";'
marvin@smokey:~ $ perl -le 'print "true" if !!"1";'
true
</c>
<p>What did you mean by "premature", though?
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