Hi Thanks for your reply.... The reason that I took that approach is that I have several scripts; the div one that you saw in the example but there is also a multiplication script. Since the result could not be expressed in scientific notation I chose to use "%lf" and the use regex to clean it up. This code was used to create the others by just changing the operators. Perhaps not the best method. The multiplication script follows:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

if ($#ARGV != 1) {
    die "Usage: mult integer integer\n"
}
foreach (@ARGV) {
    die "Integers only\n" if (/\D+/);
}
my $tot = sprintf "%lf\n", $ARGV[0] * $ARGV[1];
$tot =~ s/(\d+)(\.0+)/$1/;
print $tot;
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If you have any suggestions I'd love to hear them.

Thanks!