What is $gap = "$gap.00"; supposed to do? What do you think it does? Are you using the dot to try to concat to establish a two digit decimal field (syntax is wrong) or what?

I ask because I don't see the results you seem to describe in either of these cases:

C:\>perl -E "my $gap = 1.23; $gap = $gap.00; print ($gap + 1.5);"
2.73                     # not an integer
C:\>perl -E "my $gap = 1; $gap = $gap.00; print ($gap + 1.5);"
11.5                 # not even close! And not just BTW, WTF happens h
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I think we need a very small version of your remaining code (say 20 lines or so starting with an assignment to $gap of a typical non-date, numeric value) to know what's going on.

If I've misconstrued your question or the logic needed to answer it, I offer my apologies to all those electrons which were inconvenienced by the creation of this post.

In reply to Re: All Calculations Done with One Variable Give Integer Answers by ww
in thread All Calculations Done with One Variable Give Integer Answers by HalNineThousand

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