Re: Re: Re: multidimenional hashes

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Re: Re: Re: Re: multidimenional hashes by Anonymous Monk on Oct 11, 2002 at 14:13 UTC
Yes! Thank you. (but, i still don't see what went wrong in my original example, since I "replicated" the string that was being stored in the variable, and yet still the hash value was undefined.)	[reply]
Re:^5: multidimenional hashes by flounder99 (Friar) on Oct 11, 2002 at 15:41 UTC
The compiler stores the numbers in your source code as numbers not as formated text. When you do something with it that requires a string it gets "stringified". Here is an example: `$string = "39.750000"; $number = 39.750000; print "$string $number\n"; __OUTPUT__ 39.750000 39.75` [download] As you can see when the runtime stringifies `$number` it is not necessarily going to be in the same format as in the source code. So do your hash keys with either formatted text using `sprintf` or numbers by adding zero. I would probably use formatted strings, sometimes floating point numbers can be inconsistent due to their internal representation in hardware. -- flounder	[reply] [d/l] [select]