Jay Savage wrote: > > I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around this: > > I am writing a script that will receive two integers as input that > represent a single float. The first is the integer part, the second is > hat mantissa. How do I recomine them into a single float? all I'm > coming up with so far is: > > my $float = $int_part . '.' . $matissa; #or > my $float = sprintf "%u.%u", $int_part, $mantissa; > > It seems, though, like there should be a more elegant way to handle > this than turning two numbers into a string to turn around and use the > result as number again. What am I missing?
Hi Jay I don't think you're missing anything. I would write my $float = "$int_part.$mantissa"; which is the same as your first solution, but a little more concise. I think this is very elegant indeed; please tell me about your misgivings? Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
