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Re^2: ARGV question

by olus (Curate)
on Aug 18, 2008 at 22:13 UTC ( [id://705085]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: ARGV question
in thread ARGV question

I got curious about that behavior of the zero length result, went looking and now humbly share my findings.

In chapter 3 of Programming Perl it is said that

The equal and not-equal operators return 1 for true and "" for false (3.12)

and

The && and || operators differ from C's in that, rather than returning 0 or 1, they return the last value evaluated. (3.14)

so, @ARGV is greater than 0 and passes, eq fails and returns '', and thus && returns the last value evaluated, which is ''.

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