note davido <p>How about [http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Scalar%3A%3AUtil%3A%3ANumeric|Scalar::Util::Numeric]?</p> <p><blockquote><em>This module exports a number of wrappers around perl's builtin grok_number function,...</em></blockquote></p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-281137"> <br /><p>Dave</p> </div></div> 995587 995587