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[HLP] Meaning of 'inf' ???

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From: Laurent MARTIN
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 00:00
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Hi !

Could you please take a look at the program below :

my $s1="information";
my $s2="dummy";
printf("[%d]:%s\n",$s1,(($s1>=1000) ? "true" : "false"));
printf("[%d]:%s\n",$s2,(($s2>=1000) ? "true" : "false"));

I know, this program seems silly to you but anyway it should print the
line "[0]:false" twice.
In fact I've tried it on several PCs running Linux. On one of them (Perl
version 5.005_03 under Linux 2.2.12), the first line is "[-1]:true"...
Does someone know the reason why ???
I think this has something to see with the fact that "information"
starts with "inf" : if I change "information" to "ingormation", for
example, the 1st line changes to "[0]:false".
Is "inf" a special keyword or something like that ???

Thank you for your help !

PS : As I'm not coming here often, could you please also reply at my
e-mail address. Thx.

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