How Strings Are Converted to Numbers : Casting « Data Type « Perl






How Strings Are Converted to Numbers

  
String           Converts to Number
"123 abc"        123
"hi"             0
"4e3"            4000
"-6**3xyz"       -6
" .456!"         0.456
"x.1234"         0
"0xf"            0

   
    
  








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