The result when these two strings are compared depends on whether a string or integer comparison is being performed. : Casting « Data Type « Perl






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The result when these two strings are compared depends on whether a string or integer comparison is being performed.

   

$result = "123" < "45";  #the strings 123 and 45 are converted to integers, and 123 is compared to 45. 
$result = "123" lt "45"; #123 is alphabetically compared to 45.








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