Re: Rounding to a Given Number of Significant Figures Rather Than Decimal Places

Sorry to be dim but, with the following lines of code: $_ = FormatSigFigs($_,8); my $clem = sprintf("%08g", $_); print "$clem\n"; and starting with the number 1298.844667, I get the result 01298.84 and not 1298.845, as desired. Any ideas? Thanks again for your help

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Re: Re: Rounding to a Given Number of Significant Figures Rather Than Decimal Places by bart (Canon) on Jan 14, 2003 at 11:20 UTC
Drop the zero in the format. Update: Urm... that will replace the leading zero with a space, which is only part of your problem... Apparently, the default precision offered by "%g" is smaller than the precision you desire. OK, try this: `$_ = 1298.844667; my $clem = sprintf("%.7g", $_); print "$clem\n";` [download] Result: `1298.845` [download] OK?	[reply] [d/l] [select]