A. Pagaltzis writes: > * Bernie Cosell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-19 17:37]: > > > So: what I want is something to format money correctly, whther > > it is fractional or not. there's the fairly awful: > > > > sprintf ($amt =~ /\.\d\d\d/? "%7.3f": "%7.2f"), $amt > > ... it can be done with math, and easily too: > > sprintf ( ( $amt * 1000 ) % 10 ? "%7.3f" : "%7.2f " ), $amt
That isn't right: for $amt = 1.2306 it yields 1.23, while the original yields the correct 1.231. What about for values such as 1.2304? Again the 'modulus' version yields 1.23, whereas the 'regex' version this time gives 1.230. It's less clear which is correct for this case, but I'd think the latter on the basis that the amount does have fractional cents. Smylers
