in reply to decimal places

Perl has printf(). And so you may use of advantage of the following:
printf "%.2f\n", $percent;

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Updated: Currected mixed up decimal places with decimal digits.

-- Yuriy Syrota

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Re: Re: decimal places
by osama (Scribe) on Jan 17, 2003 at 14:09 UTC
    you could use sprintf: 
    my $percent = sprintf ("$.2f",100*$amount / $length);

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    that way the variable $percent contains the rounded result
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