On Feb 8, FLAHERTY, JIM-CONT said: >some times comes up with 24.999997 . I would like to round or trim to >24.99 for example . any Ideas ??
perldoc -q round will tell you about whether or not Perl has a rounding function. If you're REALLY worried about whether 12.345 rounds to 12.34 or 12.35, then you should use a specific rounding function, but if not, you can use sprintf(): $num = sprintf "%.02f", $raw; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
