Thomas Jakub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said something to this effect on 07/09/2001: > in c++ you can floor a variable to drop the decimal > points. How can you do this with perl? Use the int function (perldoc -f int). my $pi = 3.1415927; print int $pi; # prints 3 (darren) -- Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can save a couple of hours in the library. -- Frank H. Westheimer