There is a little hacky way of doing it.

I'm expanding veltro's suggestion to use the string representation, which smoothes the rounding errors from floats away.

 DB<42> $num1 = 1990; $num2 = '19.90'

 DB<43> p $num1 == ("" . $num2*100)          # number->to_string->to_n
+umber
1
 DB<44>

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This test proves it works reliably even with tenth of cents

 DB<41> say join "\n", grep { sprintf ("%03d",$_) != ("".($_/1000)*100
+0) } 0..99999

 DB<42>

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Please note that while this seems dirty, a numeric comparison with == will always do what you want even if the formats are not like expected.

Like having leading zeroes or not exactly 2 decimal points.

  DB<44> $num1 = '001990'; $num2 = '19.9'

  DB<45> p $num1 == ("" . $num2*100)                                  
+        
1 
  DB<46> $num2 = '19.900'

  DB<47> p $num1 == ("" . $num2*100)
1

  DB<60> $num1 = '199e1'

  DB<61> p $num1 == ("" . $num2*100)
1

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update

an easier notation might be

  DB<63> $num2*=100

  DB<64> p $num1 == "$num2"
1
  DB<65>

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Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re: number comparison with a twist (stringification rounding) by LanX
in thread number comparison with a twist by anotherguest

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