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convert Farenheit to Celcius

yatinhat
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Nov 1, 2004, 2:16 PM

Post #1 of 12 (6064 views)

convert Farenheit to Celcius	Can't Post

I am trying to teach myself Perl.

I am trying to write a script to convert Farenheit to Celcius and vice versa. I want the program to accept any number followed by an F or a C in upper or lower case. There may be spaces between the number and the letter. Numbers may have a (+ or -) and may be integer or a float.

The program is not working yet...but I know how I want it to work.

Attachments:

convert.pl (0.58 KB)

davorg
Thaumaturge / Moderator

Nov 2, 2004, 3:16 AM

Post #2 of 12 (6061 views)

Re: [yatinhat] convert Farenheit to Celcius [In reply to]	Can't Post

Code

#!/usr/bin/perl 
                                                                                 
use strict; 
use warnings; 
                                                                                 
print "Enter a temperature (e.g. 32F 100C):\n"; 
my $input = <STDIN>; 
chomp ($input); 
if ($input =~ m/^([-+]?\d+\.?\d*)\s*([CF])$/i) { 
  my $InputNum = $1; 
  my $type = $2; 
                                                                                 
  my ($C, $F); 
                                                                                 
  if ($type eq "C" or $type eq "c") { 
    $C = $InputNum; 
    $F = ($C * 9/5) + 32; 
  } else { 
    $F = $InputNum; 
    $C = ($F - 32) * 5/9; 
  } 
  printf"%.2f C = %.2f F\n", $C, $F; 
} else { 
  print "Expecting a temperature, so I don't understand '$input'.\n"; 
}

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ShipOfFools
Novice

Nov 3, 2004, 5:31 PM

Post #3 of 12 (6054 views)

Re: [yatinhat] convert Farenheit to Celcius [In reply to]	Can't Post

I heard that regex's are inefficient; that they should be used conservatively.
Anyway, here's how to convert Fahrenheit (note the spelling because that's someone's name) into Celcius...

Code

   
 
print C( $ARGV[0] );  
 
sub C 
{ 
  return (5/9)*($_[0] - 32); 
}

...where $_[0] = F.

Perform a simple algebraic manipulation to find F.

Dave

KevinR
Veteran

Nov 3, 2004, 6:01 PM

Post #4 of 12 (6052 views)

Re: [ShipOfFools] convert Farenheit to Celcius [In reply to]	Can't Post

all this regexp is doing is checking for a valid entry:

if ($input =~ m/^([-+]?\d+\.?\d*)\s*([CF])$/i) {

its not performing the conversion.
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ShipOfFools
Novice

Nov 3, 2004, 7:19 PM

Post #5 of 12 (6049 views)

Re: [KevinR] convert Farenheit to Celcius [In reply to]	Can't Post

In Reply To

all this regexp is doing is checking for a valid entry:

if ($input =~ m/^([-+]?\d+\.?\d*)\s*([CF])$/i) {

its not performing the conversion.

Yes I know. But if you follow all the steps through that code, you must agree that there is a more efficient way. All you have to do is check for C or F and have your answer ready. In fact you can use part of the actual input as a function name.

Dave

KevinR
Veteran

Nov 3, 2004, 10:55 PM

Post #6 of 12 (6041 views)

Re: [ShipOfFools] convert Farenheit to Celcius [In reply to]	Can't Post

I know davorg can speak for himself and I am sure he would prefer to speak for himself if he wants to. I'm just a hack coder with Perl myself and would not feel at all comfortable discussing the merits of any code that davorg posts.

Its been my experience that he is a generous person with his time and abilities and critiquing his code is something I am eminently unqualified to do.
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davorg
Thaumaturge / Moderator

Nov 4, 2004, 2:20 AM

Post #7 of 12 (6039 views)

Re: [ShipOfFools] convert Farenheit to Celcius [In reply to]	Can't Post

I wrote it like that to be as close as possible to the original code. If you're interested in how I'd actually write the program, it would probably be more like this:

Code

#!/usr/bin/perl 
                                                                                 
use strict; 
use warnings; 
no warnings 'numeric'; 
                                                                                 
my %subs = ( F => sub { ($_[0] - 32) * 5 / 9 }, 
             C => sub { ($_[0] * 9 / 5) + 32 } ); 
                                                                                 
my %scale = ( F => 'C', C => 'F' ); 
                                                                                 
if ($ARGV[0] =~ /([cf])\s*$/i and $subs{uc $1}) { 
  print "$ARGV[0] is ", $subs{uc $1}->($ARGV[0]),  
        "$scale{uc $1}\n"; 
} else { 
  print "Invalid input: @ARGV\n"; 
}

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(This post was edited by davorg on Nov 4, 2004, 2:22 AM)

ShipOfFools
Novice

Nov 4, 2004, 12:55 PM

Post #8 of 12 (6005 views)

Re: [KevinR] convert Farenheit to Celcius [In reply to]	Can't Post

In Reply To

Hey I wasn't bagging davorg. My post was aimed at yatinhat. I just thought I'de mention that I heard regex's should be used conservatively.

I'm going to be needing some help in the future with Perl. This will be the first place I come to because I can see that davorg is an excellent Perl programmer and very helpful. And of course, there's also your good self! :)

Just one little thing though...

Code

   
 
$subs{uc $1}->($ARGV[0])

Shouldn't that call pass $ARGV[1]?

Dave

davorg
Thaumaturge / Moderator

Nov 5, 2004, 1:20 AM

Post #9 of 12 (5992 views)

Re: [ShipOfFools] convert Farenheit to Celcius [In reply to]	Can't Post

In Reply To

Just one little thing though...

Code

$subs{uc $1}->($ARGV[0])

Shouldn't that call pass $ARGV[1]?

No. It's fine the way it is. @ARGV only contains one value (well, I suppose it can contain as many values as the user wants, but we only process the first one).

Perhaps I'm missing something. Why do you think it should be $ARGV[1]?

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ShipOfFools
Novice

Nov 5, 2004, 2:09 AM

Post #10 of 12 (5989 views)

Re: [davorg] convert Farenheit to Celcius [In reply to]	Can't Post

Sorry. I didn't try "\d+[cf]". I tried "[cf]\d+" (doesn't work), and "[cf] \d+". The latter works when $ARGV[1] is passed. I didn't know you could do things like ("100followed by chars" - 32)...nice little tip.

Dave.

davorg
Thaumaturge / Moderator

Nov 5, 2004, 2:18 AM

Post #11 of 12 (5987 views)

Re: [ShipOfFools] convert Farenheit to Celcius [In reply to]	Can't Post

But you need the "no warnings 'numeric';" for that to work without generating warnings.

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ShipOfFools
Novice

Nov 5, 2004, 6:51 AM

Post #12 of 12 (5984 views)

Re: [davorg] convert Farenheit to Celcius [In reply to]	Can't Post

In Reply To

But you need the "no warnings 'numeric';" for that to work without generating warnings.

Understood. Thanks.

Dave

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