First off, 0.423.0.523 is not a floating point number so you may need to specify your problem rather better than you have so far. Treating such strings as floating point numbers almost certainly will not do what you want.

Second, if you really are dealing with floating point numbers then whatever approach you use must take into account the fact that the number you use to generate a key (which is a string) most likely isn't the number you will get back if you treat the string as a number.

I strongly recommend that you tell us more about what you are trying to do because given the information we have from you so far I suspect that you still have plenty of trouble ahead of you.

True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re: Hash table manipulation by GrandFather
in thread Hash table manipulation by sarvan

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