Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!eci386!clewis
From: clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Is this how formats are supposed to work?
Message-ID: <1990Jan17.162117.11083@eci386.uucp>
Date: 17 Jan 90 16:21:17 GMT
References: <1990Jan15.185922.20098@eci386.uucp> <6798@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: clewis@eci386.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: R. H. Lathwell Associates: Elegant Communications, Inc.
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In article <6798@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
> In article <1990Jan15.185922.20098@eci386.uucp> clewis@eci386 (Chris Lewis) writes:
 
| > [regarding trying to set numeric display formats, and $# doesn't work.]
| : Assigning "%.2g" to $# (after selecting the handling associated with the
| : stream) doesn't appear to affect anything and things are printed with
| : more than 2 decimal places.
 
| Maybe it should work this way--I haven't thought about it.  Or maybe we
| need numeric "pictures".

If I had my druthers (then again, it's your code not mine ;-), I'd prefer 
numeric pictures, and *not* have $# take effect.  Numeric pictures have
the risk of turning Perl into Cobol (yuck ;-), but a small increment would
greatly improve perl's use in a variety of things - primarily decimal point
placement.  Eg: @>>>>>>.>>
 
| For the time being, just slap an sprintf around the variable name.

That's what I did.

Thank you!  (for this, and everything else)
-- 
Chris Lewis, Elegant Communications Inc, {uunet!attcan,utzoo}!lsuc!eci386!clewis
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