Brian,
It's round-off error.
Try the following:
printf "%0.1f Ghz\n", $speed;
Cheers,
Sui
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Brian Gibson
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 3:49 PM
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Subject: weird stuff in incrementing "for" loop with Perl
Can anyone explain why in this simple "for" loop it changes after it gets to
6.1? I am trying to create a pull down menu for a web page that lists
processor speeds from 1.0 Ghz all the way up to 20.0 Ghz and things get
crazy
in between. I am incrementing my counter by .1 each time thru the loop.
$starting_number = 1.0;
$ending_number = 20.1;
for ($speed = $starting_number; $speed < $ending_number; $speed = $speed +
.1)
{
print "$speed Ghz\n";
} ## End of "for 1.0 Ghz to the total possible speed of the processors....."
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