preventing string conversion to float.

[Little Bill]

It has been a long time since I touched any perl, and I am having a
problem with parsing a text file. I need to pull out a string in the
form 1234-5678-9123. My problem is that perl want to interpolate this
as three numbers and then it does the subtraction.

Is there a way to prevent the interpolation as a float?

Any help would be appreciated.

LB

[Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Little Bill wrote:

>It has been a long time since I touched any perl, and I am having a
>problem with parsing a text file. I need to pull out a string in the
>form 1234-5678-9123. My problem is that perl want to interpolate this
>as three numbers and then it does the subtraction.
>
>Is there a way to prevent the interpolation as a float?

You'll have to show us some code. The only way I see this happening is if
you eval() the string containing the numbers.

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