You can use printf or sprintf to control the format, but what you are doing is called profiling and it is better to use an actual profiler. Take a look at Devel::NYTProf
http://search.cpan.org/~timb/Devel-NYTProf-6.04/lib/Devel/NYTProf.pm https://www.perl.org/about/whitepapers/perl-profiling.html On Wed, May 24, 2017, 22:12 SSC_perl <p...@surfshopcart.com> wrote: > I’m timing sub routines to get an idea of where my scripts spend > the most of their time. This is an example of what I’m doing: > > use Time::HiRes qw( clock ); > my $clock0 = clock(); > ... # Do something. > my $clock1 = clock(); > my $clockd = $clock1 - $clock0; > > I’m getting values like $clock1 = 0.030259 and $clock0 = > 0.030212. However, instead of $clockd being 0.000047, it’s returning > 4.70000000000019e-05. I take it that’s exponential notation (?) but it’s > actually more difficult to read than the regular number. Is there a way to > get it to print out differently? > > Thanks, > Frank > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
