perl convert a string to a number

All you have to do is call int to change a string to a int

my $someint = int($somestring);

Comments

Unknown said…
How can you convert to a float? I need to keep my decimal value. Cheers.
Unknown said…
Ah, to keep the decimal value one should use sprintf.

Thanks anyway.

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