[thelist] What does this mean?

Simon Batistoni simon at userfrenzy.com
Thu May 11 04:14:44 2000


> Anyhow, I am
> having problems with these two lines.
> $cashflow =~ /\,//g;
> $cashflow =~ /\$//g;
>
> Can someone tell me what they do?


They remove commas and dollars from the "cashflow" variable, so that it ends
up as a nice, shiny number that you can use in sums.

sb
simon@userfrenzy.com