Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Steve Bertrand wrote:
>> Is there a way that one can use sprintf on a variable and assign the
>> value back to the variable without having the leading $var= ?
>>
>> $var = sprintf ("%.2f", (($var /=1024) /=1024)))
>
> You can write a function.
>
> convert( $var );
>
> sub convert { $_[0] = sprintf '%.2f', $_[0] / 2 ** 20 }
Thanks guys!
That's a neat piece of trickery that I'd never thought of!
Worked great!
Steve
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