my ($left, $right) = @_;
# ignore top-level parentheses
- while ($left->[0] and $left->[0] eq 'PAREN') {$left = $left->[1] }
- while ($right->[0] and $right->[0] eq 'PAREN') {$right = $right->[1]}
+ while ($left and $left->[0] and $left->[0] eq 'PAREN') {$left = $left->[1]}
+ while ($right and $right->[0] and $right->[0] eq 'PAREN') {$right = $right->[1]}
- # if both are undef i.e. ()
- if (not grep { defined $_ } ($left->[0], $right->[0]) ) {
+ # one is defined the other not
+ if ( (defined $left) xor (defined $right) ) {
+ return 0;
+ }
+ # one is undefined, then so is the other
+ elsif (not defined $left) {
return 1;
}
# if operators are different
- elsif ($left->[0] ne $right->[0]) {
+ elsif ($left->[0] ne $right->[0]) {
$sql_differ = sprintf "OP [$left->[0]] != [$right->[0]] in\nleft: %s\nright: %s\n",
unparse($left),
unparse($right);