Why does this not work?

I am turning to you who might have had this problem before:

$Lz = length $FORM{'fname'}; <--- comes up with the corrrect length of the
string
If ( $Lz gt 7 ) <-- here is where the problem is. It passes to the return
and not into the code section when the length is > 7 -- WHY??
{
# code section here
}
return;

Ideas anyone?

Frank
NC

Re: Why does this not work?

In normal time if ( x gt y) is use for comparaison of STRING type. Try if
( $Lz > 7) may be it's better.

Lactarius.

"Frank J. Russo" a écrit dans le message de news:
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>I am turning to you who might have had this problem before:
>
> $Lz = length $FORM{'fname'}; <--- comes up with the corrrect length of
> the string
> If ( $Lz gt 7 ) <-- here is where the problem is. It passes to the
> return and not into the code section when the length is > 7 -- WHY??
> {
> # code section here
> }
> return;
>
> Ideas anyone?
>
> Frank
> NC
>
>

Re: Why does this not work?

Frank J. Russo wrote:
> I am turning to you who might have had this problem before:
>
> $Lz = length $FORM{'fname'};

Whenever I see $FORM in people's code I get nervous. If you are
running code to manually parse an HTTP query, please stop. Use the
standard CGI module which is almost certainly both more correct and
more robust than the solution you are using:
use CGI qw/:standard/;
my $Lz = length(param('fname'));

> <--- comes up with the corrrect length of the string
> If ( $Lz gt 7 ) <-- here is where the problem is. It passes to the return
> and not into the code section when the length is > 7 -- WHY??

Please read:
perldoc perlop

The operators gt, lt, ge, le, eq, ne, and cmp all operate on strings.
They compare their arguments according to each character's ASCII value.
If you want to compare operands numerically, use the operators >, <,
>=, <=, ==, !=, and <=>, respectively.

Some examples:

print "99 gt 100\n" if 99 gt 100;
print "99 lt 100\n" if 99 lt 100;
print "99 > 100\n" if 99 > 100;
print "99 < 100\n" if 99 < 100;

Slightly more amusing:

if ( 1 == 1.0) {
print "1 == 1.0\n";
} else {
print "1 != 1.0\n";
}
if ('1' eq '1.0' ) {
print "'1' eq '1.0'\n";
} else {
print "'1' ne '1.0'\n";
}

Paul Lalli

Re: Why does this not work?

Thanks one and all the problem was just as stated need to change from gt to
>

Frank