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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 12:47:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "J.H.M.Dassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bug#1732: Bad arithmetic in new perl packages
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While trying to isolate the bug in perl-5.001-5 I managed to reproduce it
also with perl-5.001-3, although the output is not exactly the same.
I have tried the script below in two machines (a 386SX and a 486DX) with
the same result. It seems to be some conversion problem. It happens more
often in perl-5.001m because I noticed when I upgraded and my scripts
started to fail.
This is the test script:
------------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl
@array=(
"item1 4 units",
"item2 1.5 units",
"item3 8 units + see item2"
);
foreach (@array) {
if( ($item_name,$amount,$unit,$delimiter,$moreinfo)=
/^(\w+)\s*([\d\.]+)\s*(\w+)\s*(\+|$)\s*(.*)/) {
$total+=$amount;
}
}
$Total=$total;
print "total=$total\n";
print "Total=$Total\n";
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Output from perl-5.001-5:
total=13.5
Total=13.5000000003576
Output from perl-5.001-3:
total=13.5
Total=13.5000000005364
Thanks,
Fernando.
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