[Nagiosplug-devel] Nagios::Plugin with scientific notation
Ton Voon
ton.voon at altinity.com
Fri Feb 1 10:45:10 CET 2008
Hi!
I've been looking at some of the test failures that CPAN is reporting
about the Nagios::Plugin module and I think I've fixed most of them
now. However, this one still occurs: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/12/msg887150.html
It looks like on some systems, perl returns the scientific notation
for the value part of the performance data.
You can see this on any system by running:
perl -e '$a = 0.000053; print $a,$/'
I get 5.3e-05 on my MacOSX 10.5 and Debian 4.0. For some reason, the
test on darwin is giving this scientific notation when other systems
are not.
So the question is: Is scientific notation a problem? If not, I'll
amend the test so that it doesn't fail. But if it is, should we
specifically state a sprintf output so that you get a consistent
output of the value?
Ton
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