in reply to Re^3: All Calculations Done with One Variable Give Integer Answers
in thread All Calculations Done with One Variable Give Integer Answers

I noticed you backslashed some of your quotes but not others. Using qq() may help:

C:\>perl -E "my $gap = 55; $gap = qq[$gap.00]; say $gap;"
55.00

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