[JaxPM] counting a string

[Nate]

On the jacksonville-pm-list; Jax.PM'er Nate <nate at netimages.com> wrote -

I knew that < and > are for numbers, but Larry and Randal make a big deal
in all the docs about how perl will treat a string like a number if you
use it as a number.

I guess I read it wrong.

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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Bill Jones wrote:

> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 14:24:10 -0500
> From: Bill Jones <bill at fccj.org>
> To: Nate <nate at netimages.com>
> Cc: Jax Perl Mongers <jacksonville-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org>
> Subject: Re: [JaxPM] counting a string
> 
> on 2/25/00 2:18 PM, Nate at nate at netimages.com wrote:
> 
> > On the jacksonville-pm-list; Jax.PM'er Nate <nate at netimages.com> wrote -
> > 
> > The other day I wanted to count a string to make sure that it wasn't too
> > long (it was to check the length of a username/password pair for an
> > account generation script).
> > 
> > I figured I could do something like this:
> > 
> > print "Password too long, try again\n" if $pass > 14;
> > 
> > ...but it didn't work.
> > I ended up having to do this:
> > 
> > while($pass =~ /./g) {
> > $count++;        
> > } 
> > if($count > 14) {
> > print "Password too long, try again";
> > } elsif ($count < 4) {
> > print "Password too short, try again";
> > }
> > 
> 
> 
> if (length($pass) ge 15) {
> }
> 
> PS - > < and = are for numbers  ;)
> 
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> 
> 
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