Christopher Zukowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said something to this effect on 07/09/2001: > How would that be diff from $mins = sprintf("%02d",$QCTAvgSecs/60); > > or would it? I have no idea what $QCTAvgSecs is; it might, or it might not. Intuitively, though, I would say that no matter what $QCTAvgSecs is, the sprintf is going to be slower. An even better way would be POSIX::floor, as perldoc -f int will tell us, although that might also be slower than int. use POSIX qw(floor); my $pi = 3.1415927; print floor $pi; (darren) > At 01:46 PM 7/9/2001, darren chamberlain wrote: > >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 -- If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. -- Woody Allen