Re: $var == 1 fails when $var = 1 (lost post)

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Strange, I seem to remember someone (Laurent?) already replying in this thread with this classic link

What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

Well once again.

Cheers Rolf
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Re^2: $var == 1 fails when $var = 1 (lost post) by syphilis (Archbishop) on Sep 21, 2018 at 14:55 UTC
Well once again Why ? Does that link actually answer either of the 2 issues raised by the OP ? Those 2 issues can be paraphrased as: 1) Why does perl assert that $x is 1 when $x != 1 ? 2) How is it that $x+$y+$z != $x+$z+$y ? Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^3: $var == 1 fails when $var = 1 (lost post) by LanX (Saint) on Sep 21, 2018 at 15:41 UTC
primarily b/c I was worried about the lost post. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}	[reply]
Re^2: $var == 1 fails when $var = 1 by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Sep 21, 2018 at 01:59 UTC
o_0 I saw and upvoted that reply from Laurent_R too…	[reply]
Re^3: $var == 1 fails when $var = 1 by LanX (Saint) on Sep 21, 2018 at 02:11 UTC
So I wasn't fantasizing ... is it still listed in your votes for him? Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}	[reply]
Re^4: $var == 1 fails when $var = 1 by BillKSmith (Monsignor) on Sep 21, 2018 at 13:25 UTC
Me neither, I replied to Laurent's post. My reply can now be found in a totally inappropriate place in another thread Re^3: I need outputting the results of a query in a formatted way to a scalar, so that I can email the results Bill	[reply]
Re^5: $var == 1 fails when $var = 1 by LanX (Saint) on Sep 21, 2018 at 14:02 UTC
Re^4: $var == 1 fails when $var = 1 by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Sep 21, 2018 at 02:50 UTC
Nopers. :\|	[reply]

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