1Number::Compare(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Number::Compare(3)
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6 Number::Compare - numeric comparisons
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9 Number::Compare->new(">1Ki")->test(1025); # is 1025 > 1024
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11 my $c = Number::Compare->new(">1M");
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15 Number::Compare compiles a simple comparison to an anonymous
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18 Now this would be very pointless, if Number::Compare didn't understand
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21 The target value may use magnitudes of kilobytes ("k", "ki"), megabytes
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31 A longhanded version of $compare->( $value ). Predates blessed
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38 Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>
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41 Copyright (C) 2002,2011 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved.
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43 This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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