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That's definitely a new one to me, never bumped into this problem but I would have assumed commas would be ignored when doing mathematical equations.

You could always s/,// for $num though. 

$num =~ s/,//;

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Re: Re: Numbers with commas
by muntfish (Chaplain) on May 13, 2004 at 07:51 UTC

    <pedant>
      $num =~ s/,//g;
    </pedant>

    Sorry...

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