Use integer, e.g. print "her age is integer($age)"; The function will round up to the next highest number. -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Jakub [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 3:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: floor in c++ you can floor a variable to drop the decimal points. How can you do this with perl? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/