Re: Re: Eliminating Trailing Zeros

[Trimbach]

in reply to Re: Eliminating Trailing Zeros
in thread Eliminating Trailing Zeros

$n=~s/\.|\.0+$//

That's broken. It deletes the period but leaves in the trailing zeros. This is better, and does what's requested:

s/\.?0*$//;

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer

[dreadpiratepeter]

That turns 42000 into 42

-pete
"Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere."

[Trimbach]

Yup, but $n=sprintf("%2.4f",$n); will always return a number with a decimal, so that's not an issue.

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer