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Re: Is there a way to display numbers with an implied decimal position?

by Crulx (Monk)
on Feb 15, 2000 at 03:54 UTC ( [id://3504]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Is there a way to display numbers with an implied decimal position?

So you basically want
my $bob = 123.456 print &my_format($bob) . "\n";
to return 123456 What happens on 12345.6789 Do you want
12345678
or
12345679 ?
Or do you want something else? Assuming the last case is correct...
$bob = 123.4567; print &print_fixed($bob). "\n"; exit 0; sub print_fixed { my $num = shift; my $ipart = int($num); my $dpart = sprintf("%.3f",$num); my ($frac_part) = $dpart=~ /\.(\S*)/; return $ipart . $frac_part; }
does what you want. You can specify arbitary decimal places by passing in a second arg and replacing sprintf("%.3f",$num); with sprintf("%.$dec_places",$num);
Crulx

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