I have a function that uses PDL
. The final step is a dot product so it returns a scalar. However, when I try to print this scalar, it is clearly still a piddle and prints like this on screen:
[
[ 3 ]
]
I'm wondering how I can convert it back to the regular Perl scalar so that it prints like:
3
More importantly, what is the consequence if I don't convert and take that piddle on to further arithmetic manipulations in a pure Perl context (that does not involve PDL). Thx!
Use the sclr
method, which converts a single-element PDL matrix with any number of dimensions into a simple Perl scalar
my $dotp = sclr($mata x $matb);