As Abigail-II says, sprintf will guarantee two digits after the decimal point. But it won't guarantee consistent rounding. Try this:

my @nums = ( 62, 63, 64, 65 );
for ( @nums ) {
   $_ += 0.005;
   printf "%.2f\n", $_;
}

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Output (at least on my machine): 

62.01
63.01
64.00
65.00

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To quote Zaxo from the thread (s)printf and rounding woes:

"That is a general property of binary floating-point numbers... If you need consistency in a fixed-point decimal representation, you should scale the numbers to be represented as integers."

dave

In reply to Re: Simple Rounding by Not_a_Number
in thread Simple Rounding by einerwitzen

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