It shouldn't be taint; taint is checked for system calls, but not for simple operations like modulus.

It does work okay here (RHEL 3, perl 5.8.0).

When I run it as follows: 

use strict;
use warnings;

use RRDs;
my $datafile = "temp.rrd";
my $lupdate  = 12345;
my $hash     = RRDs::info($datafile);
my $step     = $hash->{'step'};
my $mid      = $lupdate % $step;
print $mid;

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... it prints 45 as expected.

Possibly the error is elsewhere in your code...?

In reply to Re: implicit numeric conversion isn't by quester
in thread implicit numeric conversion isn't by stargrazer

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