On 7/15/06, Ralph H. Stoos Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I want to know if / how the $buf/25400 part can be formatted to be a number with only two or three decimal places.
In Perl, that kind of formatting is generally done with printf or its related function sprintf. Where sprintf is a function which returns a formatted string, printf goes a step further and prints the string. They're documented in perlfunc, but this example may be all you need: my $result = sprintf "%.3f", $buf/25400; Hope this helps! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
