On May 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>I'm new to the group and new to Perl and am very glad to have such a
>resource available. Hopefully someday I'll be on the giving end of the
>help list but for now I'm stumped. How do I test an input to see if it
>is a real number? I have a situation something like:
I suggest you look at the FAQ entry for 'float' (perldoc -q float), and at
Tom Christiansen's "Far More Than You Ever Wanted To Know" (FMTYEWTK) doc
on this same question:
http://www.cpan.org/doc/FMTEYEWTK/is_numeric.html
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