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-----Original Message----- From: Dr.Ruud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 12:00 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: number rounding problem Howard, Chris schreef: [next time, do not toppost, and quote more effectively] > Ruud: >> Chris: >>> 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. > > But the file output format I'm required to produce > is 12 positions with leading zeros and no decimal. Then make sure that the numerical value of the variable is what you want it to be, for example: $amount = int(0.5 + $amount / 10) ; Alternative format: %012d. -- 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> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
