I found these : perl -e'print 01.234 + 01.234', "\n"' perl -e'print 01.234 + 011.234' "\n"' perl -e'print 01.234.12 + 01.234', "\n"'
And the results were : 1235234 1235234 1235.12234 Can someone explain it ? Thanks~~ On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Peter Scott <pe...@psdt.com> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:52:05 +0800, Majian wrote: > > And I modify it like this "sprintf "The number in > > scientific > > notation is %e", 01.255;" > > The screen now output is " The number in scientific > > notation > > is 1.255000e+03" > > Ha, this is an interesting case. By putting the zero before the 1, it > turns it into an octal number and now the period becomes the concatenation > operator instead of a decimal point, yielding a term of 1255. > > Try printf "The number in scientific notation is %e", 037.255"; and see > what happens. > > -- > Peter Scott > http://www.perlmedic.com/ > http://www.perldebugged.com/ > http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137001274 > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
