Re: math stuff...

2003-07-01 Thread mgoland
- Original Message - From: "Ling F. Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2003 7:04 am Subject: math stuff... > okay...I am glad @ how easy it is to use perl scalar > both as numerical value and string...but sometimes I > just need to do integer

Re: math stuff...

2003-07-01 Thread Rob Dixon
Ling F. Zhang wrote: > okay...I am glad @ how easy it is to use perl scalar > both as numerical value and string...but sometimes I > just need to do integer division the C way: > > when 10/3, I want it to equal to 3, not 3.3 > is there an operator for such operation? or do I have > to do li

RE: math stuff...

2003-07-01 Thread Hanson, Rob
ng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 7:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: math stuff... okay...I am glad @ how easy it is to use perl scalar both as numerical value and string...but sometimes I just need to do integer division the C way: when 10/3, I want it to equal to 3, n

math stuff...

2003-07-01 Thread Ling F. Zhang
okay...I am glad @ how easy it is to use perl scalar both as numerical value and string...but sometimes I just need to do integer division the C way: when 10/3, I want it to equal to 3, not 3.3 is there an operator for such operation? or do I have to do like: $a=10 $b=3 $c=$a/$b; # c=3.333