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Re: Re: Is There A Better Way?

by simeon2000 (Monk)
on Aug 13, 2002 at 15:47 UTC ( [id://189831]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Is There A Better Way?
in thread Is There A Better Way?

And since there's more than one way to do it...

$num = 12;
print 0 x (11 - length($num)), $num;

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Re: Re: Re: Is There A Better Way?
by rob_au (Abbot) on Aug 14, 2002 at 02:01 UTC
    And some more obfuscated ways listed in this thread - Including my own attempt at obscurity ...

    sub a{$_=int$_[0]*10**$_[1]+.5;s;(.{$_[1]})$;\.$1;;chop if substr($_,-
+1)eq'.';return$_};

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    ... Although I would not use it in production code myself :-)

     

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