[Nagiosplug-devel] Nagios::Plugin with scientific notation

[Vonnahme, Nathan]

Sorry, I have been negelecting the Nagios lists for a long time, but I
don't see any replies to your question from Feb 1.

Larry Wall said in one of his State of the Onion speeches that it's
better for programs (and also community members) to be "generous in what
you accept for input and strict in what you produce as output".  

So I think the sprintf solution is better, and the test that catches it,
a good test!

-n

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> devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ton Voon
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 12:45 AM
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> Subject: [Nagiosplug-devel] Nagios::Plugin with scientific notation
> 
> 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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