Gufranul Haque wrote:
>
> Hello all,
Hello,
> I have a series of numbers 20.45,-2.00,45.450,-30.390
>
> 20.45 - length is 5
> -2.00 - length is 4
Why aren't you including the leading minus sign as part of the length?
> I need to calculate the length of each number for formatting purposes.
>
> I am trying to split the each number into an array of charcters and then calculating
> the length of the array
>
> my @digits = split(/\S/, @number[$i])
> my @length = @digits
>
> but somehow it doesn't seem to be working. Can someone tell me the corect expression
> to use,
$ perl -e'
for my $number ( "20.45", "-2.00" ) {
print "Length of $number is: ", length( $number ), "\n";
}
'
Length of 20.45 is: 5
Length of -2.00 is: 5
John
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