The trick works for me on DWIM Perl 5.14.2:

11:55 >perl -wE "printf qq[%9f\t%.0f\t%2.0f\n], ($_ + 0.5) x 3 for 0 .
+. 10;"
 0.500000       0        1
 1.500000       2        2
 2.500000       2        3
 3.500000       4        4
 4.500000       4        5
 5.500000       6        6
 6.500000       6        7
 7.500000       8        8
 8.500000       8        9
 9.500000       10      10
10.500000       10      11

11:55 >perl -v

This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) built for MSWin32-x
+86-multi-thread

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Likewise on my 3 Strawberry Perls:

I’m running under Windows Vista 32-bit. So it seems that Perl’s printf behaves differently under Windows. No mention of this in perlport or perlwin32, though. Strange.

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re^5: How to calculate the sum of columns to be equal to 100? by Athanasius
in thread How to calculate the sum of columns to be equal to 100? by Anonymous Monk

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