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in reply to Re^4: Learning Programming, desperately need to know what information is contained in scalar variables
in thread Learning Programming, desperately need to know what information is contained in scalar variables

These things can be found out by experimentation. Experimentation is easy and highly encouraged.

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le "use Data::Dump qw(dd); ;; my $value; ;; my $alice = 'alice'; my $bob = 'alice'; ;; $value = $alice eq $bob; dd 'result of evaluating a comparison that is true', $value; ;; $alice = 'alice'; $bob = 'bob'; ;; $value = $alice eq $bob; dd 'result of evaluating a comparison that is false', $value; " ("result of evaluating a comparison that is true", 1) ("result of evaluating a comparison that is false", "")
See also Relational Operators and Equality Operators in perlop.

Update: Didn't read far enough before posting; question already asked and answered.


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