For instance I doubted that scalar m// returns true or false (those identifiers don't exist in Perl), I thought it's the number of matches returned.
But I was wrong: :) DB<23> $_="aaa"
DB<24> print scalar m/a/
1
Anything in Perl is true or false. Or rather, ANYTHING is true but undef is false. 😋
Like the relops, m//, s///, and y/// can all return the magical false value, that secret special value that nobody talks about:
% perl -wle 'printf "got %d matches\n", scalar ANYTHING =~ /nothing/'
got 0 matches
So I shan’t, either. 😜
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