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I can think of three ways to get what you want...

You can take the negative of the value in the sql...

$dbh=$db->prepare("SELECT -balance FROM Table1 
                   WHERE  username='$authuser' 
                          and balance < '-.01'");
$dbh->execute();
($balance_due) = $dbh->fetchrow_array();
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You can take the negative of the value in the perl...

$dbh=$db->prepare("SELECT -balance FROM Table1 
                   WHERE  username='$authuser' 
                          and balance < '-.01'");
$dbh->execute();
($tmp) = $dbh->fetchrow_array();
$balance_due = 0 - $tmp;
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You can use substr to strip out the first character...

$dbh=$db->prepare("SELECT -balance FROM Table1 
                   WHERE  username='$authuser' 
                          and balance < '-.01'");
$dbh->execute();
($tmp) = $dbh->fetchrow_array();
$balance_due = substr $tmp, 1;
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...there are lots of other things you can do ... but I would recommend the first one above.

In reply to Re: Chomp Maybe? by hossman
in thread Chomp Maybe? by th3monk3y

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