Standard form

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

very newbie question sorry! I've written a script which reads numbers from a text file so far no problem as perl is clever enough to know they're numbers some of these numbers are expressed in standard form as for example 5.13E-04 always like that E - digit digit do i need to write a function to convert to a number or is there one built in i've been scouring the perl cd bookshelf and can't find one

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Re: Standard form by splinky (Hermit) on Apr 20, 2005 at 13:13 UTC
Perl natively recognizes scientific notation, so you shouldn't have to do anything. Woof	[reply]
Re: Standard form by Bukowski (Deacon) on Apr 20, 2005 at 14:19 UTC
If you want to find the right document for how Perl handles numbers etc. you should check out "perldoc perlnumber" or look at it on-line: here Bukowski - aka Dan (dcs@black.hole-in-the.net) "Coffee for the mind, Pizza for the body, Sushi for the soul" -Userfriendly	[reply]
Re: Standard form by dorko (Prior) on Apr 20, 2005 at 13:29 UTC
I think you can't find anything because Perl is smart enough to "Do What You Mean" (tm). `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics; my ($number1, $number2, $number3) = <DATA>; my $number = 5.13E-04; my $other = "5.13E-04"; print "sum 1 = ", $number + $other; print "\n"; print "sum 2 = ", $number1 + $number2 + $number3; __DATA__ 5.12E-04 5.12E+04 1` [download] Results: `sum 1 = 0.001026 sum 2 = 51201.000512` [download] Cheers, Brent -- Yeah, I'm a Delt.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Standard form by Anonymous Monk on Apr 20, 2005 at 14:19 UTC
aye it does thanks! i thought perl would be clever enough but when my script didn't give the answers i'd been asured where right i assumed that it was the way the standard form was written actually the right numbers are wrong! thanks though	[reply]