Re: [Perl-unix-users] numeric comparisions containing trailing 0 in decimal place

2005-04-13 Thread $Bill Luebkert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I must be breaking some rules since I dont understand why comparison 2 is NOT > equal and comparision 2 is equal... Do you mean 3 on the last one above ? > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > use strict; > use warnings; > > my $num1='2.80'; > my $num2='2.8'; > my $num3='2.80'; > >

[Perl-unix-users] numeric comparisions containing trailing 0 in decimal place

2005-04-13 Thread listmail
I must be breaking some rules since I dont understand why comparison 2 is NOT equal and comparision 2 is equal... #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; my $num1='2.80'; my $num2='2.8'; my $num3='2.80'; #comparison 1 if ($num1 == $num2) { print "The values are equal\n"; } else { p