Re: converting to FLOATING_POINT..

Replace,

$time = ($time * 2.0);

to

$time = sprintf("%0.2f", ($time * 2));

That should do it.

perldoc -f sprintf

-- Rex

On 8/17/05, Vineet Pande <pande_vineet@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> In the following piece of script, I would like to convert the $time after *
> by 2.0 to floating point, for instance i want 0*2 to be printed as 0.0; How
> to do that?
>
>
> if ($_ =~ ( /TEMP/ ))
>
> {
>
> my $time = (substr($_, 30, 14));
> $time =~ s/\s//g;
> my $temp = (substr($_, 53, 10));
> $temp =~ s/\s//g;
> $time = ($time * 2.0);
> $time = ?????????????????#convert to floatpoint
> foreach ($time)
> {
> print OUT $time ;
> print OUT " ";
> foreach ($temp) {
> print OUT $temp;
> print OUT "\n";
> }
> }
>
> }
>
>
> cheerio
> vineet
>
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