Posted by Rik on 01/31/07 21:23

Gunnar G <debian@comhem.se> wrote:

> I have read a file with the file() command and it contains numbers,
> numbers
> that are larger than 2^32 and now I wonder, will this be a problem if I
> do
> arithemtcis,

I leave that to the people who actually learned the basics, is suspect it
might.

> or is there some easy way to force it to use consider the
> array as floatingpoint numbers?

You can use floatval() on a string without problems. However, depending on
how the data in that file is stored, you might want to look into the
fscanf() function.
--
Rik Wasmus

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