Stuart Clark wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to move the decimal point 2 places to the the left.
>
> Eg : To make 4536233 into 45362.33
>
> I tried this
> $total = "4536233";
> $total = sprintf("%0.2f",$total);
> print "$total";
> But I get this
> 4536233.00
>
> Can anyone help please
>
> Regards
> Stuart Clark
hm let me take a shot at this one
my $digits = 4536233;
$digits =~ m/(\d\d)$/; #I was going to inline this, but not sure of return
value
splice ( split ( //, $digits ), -2, 2, ( "." . $1) ) );
that should work, probably not worth it thought (I just opened the llama
book and picked the first function that looked good and worked from that ^.^
anyway, the reason your example didn't work is because sprintf will
truncate decimals from a floating point number.
printf("%5.2f",$varname);
#prints 123.12 if the var containted 123.1231525
since you had created a var containing integers (actually you created a
string, it just turned it into numbers on demand), it didn't have
anything to add for the decemil part.
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