Hi Andrew,
I think your approach should work fine as long as you put your data into a
standard format. Perl doesn't differentiate between strings or numbers.
A few suggestions:
1. encapsulate this code into a generic function, or method if you're
doing OOP
2. use a constant or a
ndrew
-Original Message-
From: Felix Geerinckx [mailto:felix_geerinckx@;hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 3:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: replacing numbers around a decimal
on wo, 16 okt 2002 20:03:31 GMT, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> I am creating a little calculato
on wo, 16 okt 2002 20:03:31 GMT, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> I am creating a little calculator that is going to need to take a
> user entered number that will always have 2 decimal places (using
> sprintf). It could be 89562321.29 or it could be 101.00) and take
> the last 4 digits (with the period in
