Re^4: Format, empty vars, and fixed-width records


Do you know where your variables are?
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by ikegami (Patriarch)

on Apr 22, 2008 at 02:56 UTC ( #682073=note: print w/replies, xml )

Need Help??

You could handle number overflow like Excel does:

sub format_num { 
   my $s = sprintf('%5.2f', $_[0]);
   return length($s) > 5 ? 'XXXXX' : $s;
}
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I guess that depends upon what the receiving program is expecting under those circumstances.

Maybe something like '#Inf ' or '#-Inf' makes sense?

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