There are many ways to solve the problem, but here's a trick that may not leap straight to your finger tips:

use warnings; use strict; use bignum; my $e = 0.00141; my $o =1; for (1 .. 10){ "@{[$o *= $e]}" =~ /(0\.0*\d{0,5})/; print "$1\n"; }

Prints:

0.00141 0.0000019881 0.0000000028032 0.0000000000039525 0.0000000000000055730 0.0000000000000000078580 0.000000000000000000011079 0.000000000000000000000015622 0.000000000000000000000000022027 0.000000000000000000000000000031059

The @{[...]} trick is useful for interpolating the result of a chunk of code into a string. The rest should be pretty obvious, but note that if the regex doesn't match the print may generate some interesting results.

Update: bah, forgot about the rounding. Oh well, the interpolation trick is still worth knowing even if it doesn't really help solve the OP's problem.


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In reply to Re: decimal precision by GrandFather
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