Vista - Adding in PowerShell

I know this is going to be simple.. but say I have a $Sum = 10 and I want
$Total = $Sum+.10
I've also tried $Total = ($Sum + .10) and Ive tried $diff = .10 with $Total
= ($Sum + $Diff) without success..

What did I do wrong?

This works for me.

PS> $Sum = 10
PS> $Total = $Sum + .10
PS> $Total
10.1

Are you getting an error message?



NeilOz wrote:

Nope no error message, What I'm doing is downloading the results from a web
service into an xml string using

[xml]$Quote =
$Webclient.DownloadString("http://server:1891/MarketInfoService.asmx/LiveQuote?Code="+$StockCode)

$BestBuy = $Quote.Quote.BestSellPrice

I get the desired result from $BestBuy which is say 10.00
But when I run $BuyPrice = $BestBuy + .10
I get $BuyPrice = 10.00.10

"Mark E. Schill" wrote:

That's because $BestBuy is a string, so PowerShell is performing string
concatenation when you use it with the + operator. To get a numeric value
you need to typecast $BestBuy (e.g $BuyPrice = [double]$BestBuy + .10).

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