[ale] String -> Number

[Fletch]

Good grief no you don't need that.  That apparently came from the Infrequently
Asked Questions, which if you note carefuly the date in the RCS stamp:

perliaq - infrequently asked questions about Perl 
($Date: 1999/04/01 04:23:40 $)
             ^^^^^ April 1st.



Perl will pretty much do the right thing and treat a scalar like a
number if you use it like a number and like a string when you use it
like a string.  If you really want to force a numeric conversion, just
add 0 to the value.


perl -le '$a = qq{1234\cM\cJ};print "|$a|"; print "|", 0+$a, "|"'


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