my @aligned = map { sprintf "%9.2f",$_ } qw(1 1.5 2.4578  373.237);
print join("\n",@aligned);

##</code><code>##

     1.00
     1.50
     2.46
   373.24

##</code><code>##

-- 
Joost       downtime n. The period during which a system
            is error-free and immune from user input.