"Howard, Chris" schreef: > What starts out as 64.63 ends up being 00000006462
No, it ends up beint printed as that. Replace your %12.12d by one of (%s, %f, %g) to get different representations. See also perldoc -q decimals -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>