Re: Help! Strings -> Numbers

On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:10:11PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 10:59  AM, Luke Palmer wrote:
> >> From: Michael Lazzaro <[email protected]>

> I've been under the impression that the following would _not_ work:
> 
>      $s ~~ /<number>/;
>      print "I found $number";

As a minor nit...I think this should work, it just won't do what you
wanted.  It should do just what it does in P5--print the
currently-scoped value of the variable which happens to be named
$number...and if there is no such variable, it will throw a
warning/error and put in a ''.

--Dks