Also, I still don't see anything in the perldelta manpage that either deprecates the "%lf" or mentions that there has been a change in syntax.

       o   The Gconvert macro ($Config{d_Gconvert}) used by perl
           for stringifying floating-point numbers is now more
           picky about using sprintf %.*g rules for the conver-
           sion.  Some platforms that used to use gcvt may now
           resort to the slower sprintf.
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But I'm not sure. And not everything is documented, the people working on Perl are only human!

Abigail

And not everything is documented, the people working on Perl are only human!

I've met a couple of them, they are not what I would characterize as human, perhaps super-human.

Maybe I should elaborate on these scripts. They were conversions from python, and only accept integers and only return integers. They all look similar except for the operator, and are as follows:


if ($#ARGV != 1) {
    die "Usage: div numerator denominator\n"
}
foreach (@ARGV) {
    die "Integers only\n" if (/\D+/);
}
my $tot = sprintf "%lf\n", ($ARGV[0]/$ARGV[1]);
$tot =~ s/(\d+)(\.\d+)/$1/;
print $tot;
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Perhaps someone can suggest a better way. These were very quicky hammered together to fix a problem with some scripts that rely on them after an OS upgarde.

The last three lines can be written as:

    print int ($ARGV [0] / $ARGV [1]);
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Abigail