Re^2: Help with a calculation

I don't understand what you mean, can you be more clear? Programming with Perl is new to me and I am not totally clear on your suggestion. Thanks, Hatem Jaber

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Re^3: Help with a calculation by john_oshea (Priest) on Feb 04, 2006 at 14:02 UTC
In this line: `$sales = sprintf "\$%.2f", param('Sales');` your $sales variable will end up containing a dollar sign plus whatever value comes from the 'Sales' parameter. Perl will treat this as a string, not a number...	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Help with a calculation by hjaber (Initiate) on Feb 04, 2006 at 16:52 UTC
That makes sense now, thank you for your help. I made the changes and now everything is working great. Thanks again for your help! Hatem Jaber	[reply]