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What constitutes a number in parentheses as nonnumeric?

I'm not sure why you ask since even you don't think it's a number. If you did, you wouldn't have said "a number in parentheses"; you would simply have said "a number".

The result of the string evaluated as Perl code would be a number, but the addition operator isn't about to start evaluating data as code.

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Re^2: numbers in parentheses not considered numeric values??
by gghelpneeded (Novice) on Aug 07, 2015 at 22:20 UTC
    I can't parentheses then? Bummer. I thought perl would allow it since parentheses are common in arithmetic problems.
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      The addition operator adds numbers, not arithmetic expressions. You can use all the parentheses you want in your arithmetic expressions, but not in your numbers.
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        As a form of data input, it is not allowing it. But I understand what you are saying. Your edits are making my responses seem completely off. lol. thanks for the help!
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