On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:31:08PM -0500, 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:
perldoc -q decimal The last two paragraphs are probably particularly appropriate to you. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
