>>>>> "SB" == Steve Bertrand <st...@ibctech.ca> writes:
SB> The only reason I knew that int() worked properly in the OP's case is SB> due to a prior (ie not long after my first exposure to Perl) experience SB> where I had to supply a date to a sub in a program I didn't write. but we still don't know what the OP's code actually did and why he was seeing those warnings. you can't get them given what he said and int is not a solution to a problem which may not exist. where did those numbers with leading 0's come from? why are the 0's being deleted (for no reason in normal perl IMO). SB> This was in the day when each function that dealt with dates would have SB> it's own code to format it. In the particular case I am referring to, SB> the date had to be supplied in dd-mm-yyyy format, but if any one of SB> dd|mm was <=9, only a single digit was acceptable (so I was told). SB> So at that time, I found int() to do the job quite well, and serve as a SB> good reminder when I reviewed the code that I was doing a form of a SB> typecast. but 2 digit months or days are a known format to keep things aligned and easily sorted with string (vs numeric or more complex) sorts. SB> I could have also used s/0//, but I knew no better then. there are many ways to do that in many different contexts. again, without real code this is all speculation which is what annoys me. his claim still makes no sense given the meager information we have been given. there is no octal number in perl, just octal strings that can be converted to or from perl numbers. SB> Thanks for the tip regarding what int was originally designed for. I SB> didn't know that. int isn't a fix for anything. it is a core function that is very useful in context and found in many languages. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ u...@stemsystems.com -------- http://www.sysarch.com -- ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------ --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com --------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
