On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 18:15, Nandita Mullapudi wrote:
> This has to be really easy- but I cant get it to work:
> I want my script to carry out a loop only if the number stored in
> $diff is positive,
> so i say
> if ($diff =~m/^[-\d+]/) {blah blah}
> but it won't work. why?
> TIA
> -Nandita
Try this:
if ( $diff == abs($diff) ) {
print "positive";
}
Kevin
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