Hi Monks, All i simply want to do is check for the presence of two numbers in an array, then save these and everything in between to a new array.

The problem is that simply testing for the presence of the first number returns negative, even though printing out the number and the array suggest they should definately match. Can anyone please help? 


my $first_num = $highest[0];  # print $first_nums gives 0.743499999999
+99

for (my $i=0; $i < @array; $i++)   {

         if ($first_num)  {
 
               if ($array[$i] == $first_num)   {

                   print "FOUND! \n";
                }
         }
}

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