in reply to converting digits

printf("%.2f",$value); will do exactly what you need

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Re: Re: converting digits
by fuzzyping (Chaplain) on Jul 29, 2002 at 17:01 UTC
    Actually, no, sprintf is what she wants (as we've already mentioned), based on her question. She asked for a formatted value to be returned, not printed. Now see, you've made me go and waste more bits on this thread that were otherwise unnecessary.

    -fp
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