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2019-09-27, 23:21:04

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2019-09-29, 17:47:30

Idiom #22 Convert string to integer

Extract integer value i from its string representation s (in radix 10)

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Idiom #22 Convert string to integer

Extract integer value i from its string representation s (in radix 10)

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Extra Keywords
int base conversion
Extra Keywords
int base conversion
Code 
my $i = $s + 0;
Code 
my $i = $s + 0;
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Perl automatically converts numbers to strings, and strings to numbers, whenever required.

+ is addition, not concatenation.
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Perl automatically converts numbers to strings, and strings to numbers, whenever required. This means the addition of 0 is strictly superfluous, it only indicates programmer intent.

+ always is addition, not concatenation.