[ale] Convert to float

[J.M. Taylor]

Chris,

By "running total" is it safe to assume you mean:
$total = 0;
foreach (row from mysql)
{ 
  $total = $total + row[i][number];
}

? What specifically is your perl not doing that you think it ought?  Perl 
should, afaik, automagically type things but if it doesn't, you should be 
able to cast it with something like $var = (float)$var  ...I've not 
done perl in ages so I could be wrong but I'd be willing to bet it's 
something similar.  http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlfaq4.html 
should help more than I can.

Good luck
jenn

On 5 Apr 2004, Chris Fowler wrote:

> I'm pulling a number in the format of 00.00 from a database in MySQL. 
> It is of type float there.  I need to convert to a float in perl so I
> can keep a running total.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris

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Jenn Taylor
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