[Chicago-talk] isolating the values to right and left of the decimal

[tiger peng]

Here is my solution for fun:
perl -e '$t=13.32; $t =~ s/(\d+)(\.\d+)/$1.":". (int $2*60 + .5<10?"0":"").int $2*60 + .5/e; print "$t\n"'

----- Original Message ----
From: Richard Reina <richard at rushlogistics.com>
To: chicago-talk at pm.org
Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 3:36:48 PM
Subject: [Chicago-talk] isolating the values to right and left of the decimal


After over an hour of googling and searching in my Lama, Camel and Ram books I still am unable to find a way to convert

13.32 to: thirteen hours and nineteen minutes

my $time_sring = 13.32;

my $hrs = sprintf "%0d", $time_string;  # works. I get 13

but I can't figure out how to get .32 so that I can multiply it time 60 and then round it so that I can print out:

thirteen hours and nineteen minutes

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Richard






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