Hi,
This is probably a RTFM question, and I am checking, but no joy.
I also have 2 books on Perl but I loaned these and am (temporarily)
bereft of their wisdom. (Question is possibly also OT).
I am using Perl and Apache on Linux to read data from text files and
output the data into a HTML table. (Next step will be to use MySQL
to store the data). My question is this: how do I curtail the amount
of decimals being displayed from a decimal scalar, e.g. to get the
percentage attendance based on classess attened / total classes * 100:
$att_pc = $att / $total * 100;
when I display this using a print statement I get 12 decimal places,
which looks a bit silly:
print "<TD align=center>$att_pc</TD>";
Is there a Perl equivalent to the C %.2f to format output to 2 decimal
places?
Apologies for the OT nature of this question.
Regards,
Cormac.
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