Date: 20 Sep 2001 13:51:58 -0400
From: Joe Schaefer <joe+usenet@sunstarsys.com>
Subject: Re: Limiting floating point decimal places.
Message-Id: <m3hetxzr5t.fsf@mumonkan.sunstarsys.com>

anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Anno Siegel) writes:

> According to Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>:
> > In article <x766ahdrbj.fsf@home.sysarch.com>,
> > Uri Guttman  <uri@sysarch.com> wrote:
> > >  CF> Also look at $OFMT and $# in the perlvar manual page.
> > >
> > >$# is deprecated and not useful. i think it is also broken in some
> > >ways. 
> > 
> > It's extremely broken.  Try this:
> > 
> > 	$s = 1.23456789;
> > 	$# = '%.0f';
> > 	print $s, "\t$s\n";
> > 
> > I doubt anyone has ever successfully used $# for anything.
> 
> So do I.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=m33dcw27ia.fsf%40mumonkan.sunstarsys.com

:-)

I also think Kalle Anka might benefit from a "judicious" application 
of $#.  Then again, it probably wouldn't make the slightest difference.

-- 
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                        Grinch thought of something he hadn't before!
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