On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 23:31, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > I am writing a program to parse a CSV file downloaded from my bank. I have it > keep a running balance, but I'm getting a weird total. Apparently, -457.16 + > 460.93 = 3.76999999999998. But when 20 is subtracted from that, I get -16.23. > There are no weird numbers like that in my input data. All numbers have no more > than 2 numbers after the decimal point. Here is my code: [...] > print "<td>$balance</td></tr>\n";
Andrew, Try using this when you print out the $balance: printf "%.2f", $balance; You'll get 3.77. Hope this helps, Kevin -- Kevin Old <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
