Jay Savage wrote: > > You're right, the mantissa may have leading zeros. Good catch. I need > to keep them, though, or any later math will be off by multiple powers > of ten. I'd completely missed that on the first go-around, but what I > really need is > > $x = sprinf "%u.%s", $int, $mantissa;
I think what you you really need is $x = sprintf "%s.%s", $int, $mantissa; or really $x = "$int.$mantissa"; Get over it :) Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/