This question is similar to "dropping trailing ‘.0’ from floats", but for Perl and with a maximum number of digits after the decimal.
I'm looking for a way to convert numbers to string format, dropping any redundant '0', including not just right after the decimal. And still with a maximum number of digital, e.g. 3
The input data is floats. Desired output:
0 -> 0
0.1 -> 0.1
0.11 -> 0.11
0.111 -> 0.111
0.1111111 -> 0.111
You can also use Math::Round to do this:
$ perl -MMath::Round=nearest -e 'print nearest(.001, 0.1), "\n"'
0.1
$ perl -MMath::Round=nearest -e 'print nearest(.001, 0.11111), "\n"'
0.111
Use the following directly:
my $s = sprintf('%.3f', $f);
$s =~ s/\.?0*$//;
print $s
...or define a subroutine to do it more generically:
sub fstr {
my ($value,$precision) = @_;
$precision ||= 3;
my $s = sprintf("%.${precision}f", $value);
$s =~ s/\.?0*$//;
$s
}
print fstr(0) . "\n";
print fstr(1) . "\n";
print fstr(1.1) . "\n";
print fstr(1.12) . "\n";
print fstr(1.123) . "\n";
print fstr(1.12345) . "\n";
print fstr(1.12345, 2) . "\n";
print fstr(1.12345, 10) . "\n";
Prints:
0
1
1.1
1.12
1.123
1.123
1.12
1.12345
You can use sprintf
combined with eval
.
my $num = eval sprintf('%.3f', $raw_num);
For example:
#!/usr/bin/perl
my @num_array = (
0, 1, 1.0, 0.1, 0.10, 0.11, 0.111, 0.1110, 0.1111111
);
for my $raw_num (@num_array) {
my $num = eval sprintf('%.3f', $raw_num);
print $num . "\n";
}
outputs:
0
1
1
0.1
0.1
0.11
0.111
0.111
0.111
This will give you the output your looking for:
sub dropTraillingZeros{
$_ = shift;
s/(\d*\.\d{3})(.*)/$1/;
s/(\d*\.\d)(00)/$1/;
s/(\d*\.\d{2})(0)/$1/;
print "$_\n";
}
dropTraillingZeros(0);
dropTraillingZeros(0.1);
dropTraillingZeros(0.11);
dropTraillingZeros(0.111);
dropTraillingZeros(0.11111111);