Re^3: unexpected result using '>='

You could use ge rather than >= which stringises the values.

Your original code then prints:

Content-type: text/html

119.8 ::239.6<br>
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Re^4: unexpected result using '>=' by Thelonius (Priest) on Aug 17, 2006 at 16:31 UTC
But you almost never want to use ge for comparing numbers. For example, `my $x = 3; my $y = 20; if ($x ge $y) { print "$x ge $y\n"; }` [download] will print "3 ge 20".	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: unexpected result using '>=' by jonnyfolk (Vicar) on Aug 16, 2006 at 23:33 UTC
Many thanks for that - much closer to what I was expecting to see! I shall read up on the difference between `>=` and `ge` in the morning (it's now 1:30am CET!)	[reply] [d/l] [select]