Hello Monks,

I'm working out the details on my latest script and have hit a snag with results I don't understand from the modulo operator. I could work around it with ordinary division and truncation, but I'm stubborn:

sub second_to_string{
use warnings;
use strict;
use 5.010;
my $seconds = shift;
say "seconds are $seconds";
my $hours = $seconds % 3600;
say "hours are $hours";
my $remainder = $seconds - $hours *3600;
say "remainder is $remainder";
my $return = join('', $hours, 'h ');
return $return;
}

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Output:

seconds are 34640
hours are 2240
remainder is -8029360
equal_ra is 2240h

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The correct answer for hours is 9, and the remainder should not be negative. Thanks for your comment.

In reply to solving modulo trouble by Aldebaran

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