I didn't suggest in anyway you post an enormous program here.

What I suggest is that you reduce your code to a minimal program such that it 1) runs, and 2) shows your problem.

Under what conditions can I take a string "110.98" and not be able to use it in numeric context? I thought the answer was "under no conditions ever for any reason under any version of Perl" but clearly I'm wrong.
Oh, no, you are right. If you have a string "110.98", you will be able to use it in numeric context. The problem however is that you may very well have some else than a string.

But since we don't know where the thing you have is coming from, we don't know, do we? And I don't like the game of "I've problem. I only half describe it. Now guess what's going on". If I want to play situation puzzles, I'll go to rec.puzzles.

In reply to Re^3: Getting different results with $var++ and $var += 1 by JavaFan
in thread Getting different results with $var++ and $var += 1 by splicer

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