in reply to Question about Numbers, Strings & SPLIT
You need to escape '.' in the regular expression like this:
split /\./
'.' in a regular expression matches any single character, rather than the period character.
Please have a look through perlre.
Personally, I like to do:
If $fract isn't defined, it'll be evaluated as zero when used numerically.my ($whole,$fract) = ($hjd =~ /(\d+)(\.\d+)?/);
-David
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