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.
Perhaps this will help explain what is going on: perldoc -q "long decimals" John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
