[plug] Perl programming using HTML::Parser

Simon Newton newtons at iinet.net
Mon Apr 28 15:49:30 WST 2003


On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 15:38, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> As a Perl hater, I can tell you that it's because Perl's == operator is
> cheerfully attempting to parse both $tagname and "html" as integers,
> failing miserably without bothering to tell you, and assuming in its
> infinite wisdom that these strings are equal to zero. 

Only because there is no "use strict". Its not telling you because you
haven't asked it to :)

Simon N







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