Am Mittwoch, 6. April 2005 18.02 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Manish Sapariya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2005 10:17 am > Subject: Converting a retruned string value to a number > > > Hi List, > > HellO, > > > How do i convert a string variable returned by > > some XPath API into a number so that I can > > compare it or loop using this number. > > You should not need to convert, Perl is smart enough to figure it out on > it's own.
...and therefore... > #!PERL > use warnings; > use strict; > > my $te="123"; > print $te if $te eq "123" && $te == 123; ...it's sufficient to compare numerical, which is more performant (I think): print $te if $te == 123; :-) (but your code won't produce a warning in the case that $te's value is not numeric) [...] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
