in reply to How to use ######.##

This has to do with Perl formats, which I would believe are relatively seldom used nowadays.

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Re^2: How to use ######.##
by Happy-the-monk (Canon) on Nov 17, 2017 at 09:35 UTC

    are relatively seldom used nowadays

    hippo and Laurent_R are all correct. Just adding: nowadays most people seem to use sprintf/printf for formatting.

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