Re: Want to Truncate A Number... NOT round it

TMTOWTDI:

my $n=34.57889;
$n=~/(-?\d+\.\d{3})/;
print "$n - $1\n";
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Update: Added -? to the regex to handle negative numbers (thanks halley)

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Re: Re: Want to Truncate A Number... NOT round it by halley (Prior) on Feb 11, 2004 at 21:15 UTC
Breaks on negative numbers. -- `[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]`	[reply]