Boolean values: TRUE and FALSE

---

if ($z) {
    # $z is true
}

The FALSE values:

undef
""
0  0.0  00000  0e+10
"0"

All other values, such as the following are TRUE:

1
"00"
"0\n"

In many cases the separation must be between "real" values and undefined values. For that you can use the defined function:

if (defined $x) {
    # $x is defined (not undef)
}