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identify real floating point number
Hi Thanks for your support in this I have now resolved my problem with your help and the following is my solution Cheers Phil.R #content of test_file.dat #ALPHA 3 4 5 6 7.0 8 9 4 open (FH, "<test_file.dat") or die "cant open file $!"; while (<FH>) {... -
identify real floating point number
Hi Thanks for the input so far althouh not answered yet! a little more explanation may be required... I am reading values from a file so do not have the opportunity to wrap with quotes, because each time I read a "value" into a variable with the format i am stuck with I loose the decimal point... -
identify real floating point number
I have the following code to identify a decimal number, however if the number is 10. or 10.0 format ie no trailing numbers after decimal point or a single trailing zero my function fails can ay one help? sub is_float { #Warning this does not return is_float true when the number ends like:- #...
