Hi, I'd like to shorten every decimal number in a file, keeping it's structure. How can I do that?
use strict;

my $content = '{ "geometry": { "type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [ [ [
+ 19.054804912278406, 47.485785556135411 ], [ 19.057857836771483, 47.4
+87322542030711 ], [ 19.06025597925397, 47.488491565765209 ], [ 19.060
+347248086835, 47.488539642204628 ], [ 19.060463310421543, 47.48457828
+7406251 ], [ 19.054804912278406, 47.485785556135411 ] ] ] } }';

  while ($content =~ /(\d\d\.\d*)/g){
       my $num = substr($1,0,9);
       # number is shortened, but how do I use it?
  }

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In reply to In-place regex substitution by lmocsi

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