in reply to Re: Negative zero? There's gotta be a sprintf that undoes that, right?
in thread Negative zero? There's gotta be a sprintf that undoes that, right?

Oh, but it does...

perl -e 'printf "%.1f %.1f\n",0.05,0.049'
0.1 0.0

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your method is good for truncating... course, with a suitable addition of .5 it rounds.

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