Without posting your code, it's tough to be sure what's going on here, but it appears that you are confusing a display format with an internal one. In other words, you would only want the dollar sign on the number for display purposes.

    perl -e 'if ( q|$201.00| > q|$200| ) {print 1}else{print 0}'

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That prints zero, which is correct, but may not be what you expect. Either strip the dollar sign or use a regex to extract the number into another variable.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid) Re: comparing two amounts of money. by Ovid
in thread comparing two amounts of money. by epaphus2

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