[ic] What's wrong with this syntax ?

[Joachim Leidinger]

Brev Patterson wrote:
> 
> > Immediately after this code, I want to display the subtotal multiplied by a
> > constant (say 1.10), so I wrote :
> > <td class="contentbar2" align=right><b>[calc] [subtotal] * 1.10 [/calc]
> > </b></td>
> 
> [calc interpolate=1][subtotal] * 1.10[/calc]
> 
> ?

You get the price formatted! Perl can't calculate  this

$a = "10 USD";
$b = "1.1";
$c = $a * $b;
Results: 0

but

$a = "10";   # WITHOUT USD
$b = "1.1";
$c = $a * $b;
Results: 11 

with [subtotal noformat=1] you will get a price without any format.

Joachim

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