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in thread Supressing zero values in formatted reports

Thanks, however that causes the same Argument " " isn't numeric in formline error that setting it to blank does.
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Re: Re: Supressing zero values in formatted reports
by Fengor (Pilgrim) on Dec 28, 2001 at 15:14 UTC
    Hmm this isn't an error. It's a warning.

    From perldiag: Argument "%s" isn't numeric%s

    (W) The indicated string was fed as an argument to an operator that expected a numeric value instead. If you're fortunate the message will identify which operator was so unfortunate.

    This means although the warning is displayed your program should run normally.

    hth
    fengor

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      Correct. Warning. Sorry. However it still prints a zero in the spots that I want blank.
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        Hmm, now i reached the end of science (at least to my knowledge) so let's start with the voodoo (aka blind guessing):

        • I know there's an int($foo) function that returns the integer part of a variable. Maybe there is something similar for strings?
        • Have u tried to use another character instead of a blank? something like - or . ?
        As I said both is just vlind guessing and will propably not work. Your program seems to think that right at this place there has to be a number. I don't know why it does this, but maybe some other monk can bring some clarification to this?

        greetings
        fengor

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        "WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR IF NOT THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN"
        -- Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"

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      Correct, I'll rephrase that to Warning, and continue to comment that it still does not suppress zero values.
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