On Wednesday 17 November 2004 09:52, Bob Showalter wrote:
> Joseph Paish wrote:
> > following is a sample of a record generated by a perl script i have
> > written ( i have put each field on a separate line in this email to
> > prevent word-wrapping) :
> >
> >
> > 12/05/2003
> > sold
> > 8000
> > widget1
> > 0.055
> > 29.95
> > 30500
> > 0
> > 410.05
> > -173.655333717579 << change to 2 decimal places displayed
> > 2225.37658479827 << change to 2 decimal places displayed
> > 0.0729631667146973 << change to 4 decimal places displayed
> > -173.655333717579 << change to 2 decimal places displayed
> > sample_note_here
> >
> >
> > the first 9 fields and the last field are output just the way i want
> > them using a simple "print" statement, but the 4 long ones near the
> > end are not.
> >
> > is there some way of using printf formatting on only certain fields
> > to modify the way that they are displayed and leave the others alone,
> > since the way they are displayed is ok already?
>
> Use sprintf() on those elements you want specially formatted.
>
> So instead of
>
> print $x, $y, $z;
>
> You can use
>
> print $x, $y, sprintf('%.02f', $z)
>
> This will print $z with two places after the decimal, but leave $x and $y
> alone.
it worked!!
thanks
joe
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