- automatic conversion
String - Number conversion
examples/scalars/string_number.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; print 3 . "", "\n"; print 3.1 . "", "\n"; print "3" + 0, "\n"; print "3.1" + 0, "\n"; print "3x" + 0, "\n"; # warning: Argument "3x" isn't numeric in addition (+) print "3\n" + 0, "\n"; print "3x7" + 0, "\n"; # warning: Argument "3x7" isn't numeric in addition (+) print "" + 0, "\n"; # warning: Argument "" isn't numeric in addition (+) print "z" + 0, "\n"; # warning: Argument "z" isn't numeric in addition (+) print "z7" + 0, "\n"; # warning: Argument "z7" isn't numeric in addition (+)