Hello Monks,
I am trying to parse a csv file with a single software's inventory. The file contains system name, software name and version in each line. I am writing a script to find the number of instances of each version of software based on the major and minor version numbers.

For eg: When i look for major version 10, all the following should get counted 10.00.359, 10.01.1000, 10.02.2000 When i do a numeric comparison for this in my code i get warnings during run.

Argument "10.00.359" isn't numeric in numeric le (<=) at SWCompliance.pl line **

The code snippet is given below. 

$ver = 10;
#loop and split the line
if ($ver <= $sw_fields[2])
{
    $by_sw{$sw_fields[0]}{$sw_fields[2]}++;
    $swvercount++;
}

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Am i doing something wrong or is there an alternate method?
Thanks in advance.
Joseph

2006-01-17 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Logical Operation - Numeric vs Sting'

In reply to Logical Operation - Numeric vs String by josephjohn

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