This is probably something really simple, but I don't understand why the code below doesn't work properly - ex, the IF statement in the subroutine doesn't evaluate properly. In the example below, @_ is always correct as printed, but it always hits the first IF statement, even if @_ is "2.0000".

I have also tried changing the comparison operator to "eq" tried the match "=~", but it still won't work correctly.

Thanks in advance. 

#!usr/bin/perl

sub test {
    print "@_\n";
    if (@_ == 1.0000) {
        print "entering loop 1\n";
        $hashname = "hash1";
        } elsif (@_ == 2.0000) {
            print "entering loop 2\n";
            $hashname = "hash2";
            }
    print "$hashname\n";
    return ($hashname);
    }

%hash1 = (
1 => 1.1,
2 => 2.2,
3 => 3.3,
);

%hash2 = (
1 => 4.4,
2 => 5.5,
3 => 6.6,
);

$hash = test(sprintf("%.4f", 2));

print $$hash{1};

exit;

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In reply to IF statements not being evaluated as expected by mabman2

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