I'm almost embarassed to post this. Learning Perl from scratch, I'm happy with what I thought were going to be the difficult bits - I have a web-based system that is happily loading orders to and from a database using the appropriate modules. So far, so good.
Until I tried putting in an order which pushed the total line value stored over 1000. At which point, totalling up the line values to produce a grand total, I realised that all I was adding was 1 for 1000, 2 for 2000 etc. Numbers less than a thousand are fine.
OK, I know a bit about why it is failing, I think (although someone correct me if I am wrong). Perl is storing the numbers as scalars but with a thousands separator as a comma. Any time I try and use that, it thinks I am trying to read a list into a scalar and just grabs the first item, i.e. the number before the comma.
So if I have:
$mynum=2000.99;
$totalline = sprintf("%11.2f\n", $mynum);
all I get in $totalline is "2\n".
I'm using ActiveState Perl 5 on NT.
I have to be missing something here (apart from a Linux machine - but I don't think that would solve THIS problem) - someone embarass me by telling me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks
Martin GK

In reply to Thousands separator - this is getting annoying by Anonymous Monk

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