According to Perl Cookbook, Perl interpolates the floating-point numbers in stings using the "%.15g" format; and

$str1 = 0.00;
print "str1 $str1\n";
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is equal to

printf "str1 %.15g\n", 0.00;
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and prints the same

str1 0
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. Updated to look cleaner.