#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use 5.016;

# rounded-1079543.pl - Round to 2 decimal places using regexen 
#                     (even though printf/sprintf would be preferred) 
#             update 2: as Laurent_R notes, this is truncation, not ro
+unding.
#                       but it is what OP asked for.

my $num =  3.333333333;
$num =~ /(\d*\.\d{2})/;
my $roundednum = $1;
say $roundednum;

  # or

my $num2 = 5.5555555;
$num2 =~ s/(\d*\.)(\d)(\d).*/$1$2$3/;
my $rounded2 = $num2;
say $rounded2;

=head execution:

C:>rounded-1079543.pl
3.33
5.55
=cut

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Reformatted (belatedly): added code tags when the (well-deserved) downvotes accumulated sufficiently to attract my attention.
Is my impression that answers submitted to the Q&A editors are NOT editable by the author, until approved into public use?
If so, maybe we should make the input box for Q&A look like (and behave like) those for SOPW, etc.

In reply to Re: Rounding numbers by ww
in thread Rounding numbers by Dr Manhattan

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