... and then using them in calculations... Hello I wonder if someone can advise me. I've searched and searched but cannot find an answer to this. Maybe I am asking the wrong question or it may not be possible. I am receiving some variables from a web form into my script in the form $in{'REPORTID_X'} $in{'COST_X'} where X corresponds to the record number being received. I will know how many records I will receive but the number is not fixed (usually between 30 and 60 so not huge) so I wanted to write a while {} statement to write the incoming data to a file. Something like this: 
$linecounter = 1;
$records = in{'records'};
OPEN FILE
while ($linecounter <= $records) {
$thiscost = in{'COST_$linecounter'} * 100;
print FILE in{'REPORTID_$linecounter'}; # I know this doesn't work but
+ it is what I need
print FILE $thiscost;
$linecounter++;
}
CLOSE FILE

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Can anyone help? Many thanks in advance. Paul

In reply to Concatenating numeric variables... by babuyagu

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