How would that be diff from $mins = sprintf("%02d",$QCTAvgSecs/60); or would it? 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 > >(darren) > >-- >Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can >save a couple of hours in the library. > -- Frank H. Westheimer