Re: fractional cents

* Quantum Mechanic <[email protected]> [2004-04-19 23:09]:
> --- "A. Pagaltzis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >     my $amt_str = sprintf "%7.3f", $amt;
> >     for($amt_str) { chop if /\.\d\d0\z/ } 
> 
> Why would you do "for..chop" when you could do "s///"?
> You're using an re either way?
> 
> ;)
> 
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Because I think

    chop if /\.\d\d0\z/;

is clearer to read than

    s/(?<=\.\d\d)0\z//;

or even (yuck!)

    s/(\.\d\d)0\z/$1/;

The last one is even semantically different, even though it does
the same thing.

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Aristotle
 
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