Hello,

I just want some advice on how to add a supposedly numeric value to a pre existing hash value.

For example,
at the moment in my hash could be a small value like e-149. I then want to add another value, say 2e-36, to the value that is already stored in the hash element, where e represents 2 x10-36 in the above example.

Is perl capable of realising that the string 2e-36 is in fact 2 x10-36?

If it is, can i add the new value to the old one? If not after converting it to a number can i stil add the element to the new value without it just concatenating the strings.

cheers, MonkPaul.

In reply to Adding hash values together by MonkPaul

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