> foreach my $key (sort keys %last) {
>         # %last is the name of the hash ... now it is sorted by key
>         my @temp_array = split / /, $last{$key} ;
>         print $temp_array[2] ; # prints out the 3rd field
> }
> 
> now, how to do math on it?  in other words, i guess i am asking how to
> convert a string '789' to a floating point number so i can do things like
> multiply it.

print $temp_array[2] * 2; # ;-)

Perl usally trys to DWIM

Do What I Meant.

/Stefan

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