On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:44:09PM -0700, Thomas Jakub wrote:
: okay...  so how do I drop of all but two decimal
: points in perl?

Give sprintf() a try:

  my $float = 4.3456;
  [... some code ...]
  $float = sprintf "%.2f", $float;

s?printf() will do it's best to round for you too, allthough the
rounding isn't perfect.

Please read:

  perldoc -q sprintf
  perldoc -q printf

  Casey West

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