Fraction to integer.

2001-10-18 Thread Amit Joshi
Hi, Is there a way in perl to directly convert a fractional number to its nearest integer value ?? Thanks, Amit. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PRO

2 questions on perl.

2001-10-18 Thread Amit Joshi
Hi, I'm very new to perl. Have following two questions: Q1: Do we have a standard way to generate random numbers in perl ? Q2: How do we run system commands from a perl program ? Thanks and regards, Amit. _ Get your FREE downl

Perl compiling environment for win98.

2001-10-04 Thread Amit Joshi
Hi, I'm an IC design engineer. My working platform is unix. I want to learn Perl for being able to write scripts in unix environment. I have a windows98 PC at home and want to download a perl compiler/ interpreter (whatever needs to be downloaded) in order to be able to write and try perl scr