aha, yeah. with "use warnings" (it complains but still does the right thing):
p@satan% ./try Misplaced _ in number at ./try line 3. 315159254 without "use warnings": p@satan% ./try 315159254 i still feel like perl is wet and wild, so i turn on as many newbie alertings as possible. :) pete begin Jay Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It works on non-3 groups (pardon my M$) > > C:\>type tmp.pl > my $number = 3_151_592_65; > print $number += 1000, "\n"; > > > C:\>perl tmp.pl > 315160265 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 1:15 PM > Subject: [vox-tech] perl never ceases to amaze me > > > > perl is such a cool language. i never knew you can represent numbers > > this way: > > > > my $number = 3_151_592_653; > > print ++$number, "\n"; > > > > i can easily see that $number represents "three billion one hundred > > fifty one million five hundred ninety two thousand six hundred fifty > > three". if, instead, i saw: > > > > my $number = 3151592653; > > print ++$number, "\n"; > > > > i'd be sitting there all day trying to figure out what this number is. > > perl will balk if you use an underscore in anything other than groups of > > three, as in: > > > > my $number = 3_151_592_53; > > > > jeez, for all the numerical stuff i do for research, i wish C had > > something like this built in! > > > > pete > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi, being prophetic about Linux. Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
