in reply to Re^4: Loosing Negative Values in Array Ref
in thread Loosing Negative Values in Array Ref
This is very close, see the values for "Zilda Mil", it should display "14.0" but instead its getting the "9.0".Hmmm, yes, this is because it's using 'gt' rather than '<'. I copied the regex from your program. The best solution (if you're on Perl 5.8 or later) is to use looks_like_number:
If you're on an earlier Perl, see perlfaq4.use Scalar::Util 'looks_like_number'; for my $aref_acc_num (sort { $a->[0] cmp $b->[0] } values %$acc_num) { push @$all_dta_acc_num, my $tmp = []; for my $aref (@$aref_acc_num) { for my $i (0..1) { $tmp->[$i] = $aref->[$i]; } for my $i (2..$#$aref) { if (!defined($tmp->[$i])) { $tmp->[$i] = $aref->[$i]; } elsif (looks_like_number($tmp->[$i])) { $tmp->[$i] = $aref->[$i] if $aref->[$i] > $tmp->[$i]; } else { $tmp->[$i] = $aref->[$i] if $aref->[$i] gt $tmp->[$i]; } } } }
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