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Something seems to have gone wrong here. Obviously Mark is different to Tony, so why does perl consider them equal?

April 26, 2017different gone Mark Obviously Perl Tony wrong

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Something seems to have gone wrong here. Obviously Mark is different to Tony, so why does perl consider them equal?

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Mark and Tony are equal — numerically. We should be testing them as strings, not as numbers. To do this, simply substitute == for eq and everything will work as expected.