It was Wednesday, July 30, 2003 when Dan Muey took the soap box, saying: : : If I have a number like so: : 5.8592675 : : I need to make it a x.xx instead of x.xxxxxxxxx and I need to round it up to the next hundredth like so : 5.86 : : I can't seem to remember the round type functions name and am always screwy with sprintf. : : What combo of sprintf() and round() or whatever would do what I'm trying to accomplish?
sprintf will do a fair job of rounding for you. See the following document: perldoc -q round But basically, you could do: my $rounded = sprintf '%.2f', $number; Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with SmallTalk You daydream repeatedly about shooting yourself in the foot. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
