One simple way is to force perl to treat $value like a number. Since it's the string "n/a", treating it like a number will evaluate to 0. To force perl to treat it like a number, do something numeric with it. For instance:

   while (<FH> ) {
       chomp;
       if ( /Impressions:/ ) {
       my($text, $value) = split(/:/, $_);
       print "Impressions: $value";
       print "\n"
       $value += 0;                 # turn $value into a number
       $impressions += $value;
    }

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HOWEVER, you're already treating $value like a number when you add it to $impressions, so if you uncomment that line it should just work without the added step of adding 0 to $value

duff

In reply to Re: How to substitute 0 (zero) Instead of 'n/a' by duff
in thread How to substitute 0 (zero) Instead of 'n/a' by danield

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