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As everyone knows, the numeric’s comparison uses different operators to string’s.
So Is there a generic way to do comparison both numeric and string in Perl ?
Should I always check the value is numeric or string before doing the comparison?
I am a freshman in Perl. Please help if you have some idea.
Thanks.
In addition to ways already mentioned, when using perl > 5.10.1, smart matching can be used. Specifically look at lines 29 .. 32 in the referenced table. If one operand look like a number, numeric comparison is used, otherwise fallback to string.