title: Numeric to String conversion in Perl
body: <p>According to my knowledge when ever a string like     </p>
  
  <pre><code>$a="120.43sunil"+5;    
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>it will give a result like </p>
  
  <pre><code>$a=125.43     
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>since string is not a number the "sunil" part will be omitted.
  what if we get some thing like    </p>
  
  <pre><code>$a="12fred34"*" 3"   
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>will the string be converted to 1234 or 12034 ?
  im kind a new to perl programming.  </p>