I frankly don't understand why you should have an internal representation of the number with the decimal zero (either you want to print it or you want to compute with it, but maybe I'm wrong). Anyway the right way to go is using sprintf() to generate a correctly truncated string and then rely on Perl's ability to cast numbers in the most appropriate ways.

Here is an example: 

use strict;
while ( <DATA> ) {
    my $val = sprintf( "%.01f", $_/1000 );
    # do maths with the truncated result....
    my $val2 = $val * 2; 
    print "$val - $val2\n";
}

__DATA__
100
1000
2314
171
123456789

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The result is 
0.1 - 0.2
1.0 - 2
2.3 - 4.6
0.2 - 0.4
123456.8 - 246913.6
Note how the .0 is lost if you do any maths on 1.0 unless you format it again before printing - the first column is made of strings, the second of floats.

In reply to Re: Dividing and format by l3nz
in thread Dividing and format by hotshot

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