[Perl-unix-users] Strange behaviour in Perl

[Arijit Das]

I am just wondering why is this giving a strange result. Any clues...?

 

bash-2.01$ echo 4.56 | perl -p -e 'my $var1 = <STDIN>; $var2 = $var1 * 100;  print $var2;'
04.56
bash-2.01$

 

I am expecting 456 in the ouput instead of 4.56

 

Am I missing anything...?

 

Thanks,
Arijit

 

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