Just do $result = $var1 + $var2; int returns the integer part of a number, see: perldoc -f int
JeeBee On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 07:04:18 -0800, Ravi Malghan wrote: > Hi: I think this is very trivial, but just can't seem to figure it out. I > have two strings $var1 = "0.12" and $var2 = "0.3". I want to add these two > and have 0.42 in $result, but $result = int($var1) + int($var2) always > results to 0? > > What am I doing wrong. > Thanks > Ray > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>