At 04:11 PM 07/10/2001 -0400, Moon, John wrote:
>One way to do it ...
>
> perl -e '$x=1234.5678; ($y)=$x=~/(\d*\.{0,1}\d{0,2})/;print $y ."\n";'
heh...that was pretty close to perl bowling ;-)
Don't do wierd contrortions with regexps when theres a simple built-in
function to pull off the same results. Use sprintf:
print sprintf "%.2f", $number;
Aloha,
mel
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