Re: Limiting floats
by John Erjavec V <jev(at)pconline.com>
||Sat, 07 Oct 2000 00:49:56 -0500
||John Starkey <jstarkey(at)advancecreations.com>,
At 04:53 PM 10/5/00 -0600, John Starkey wrote:
>Can someone tell me what I have to do to limit a float down to 2 decimal
>points. I'm trying to average user input and display the results.
Well, that would depend on which language you are using to do this. In
Perl or C, I would use the printf function to print out the variable, like
so (with Perl syntax):
printf("The value is %0.2f.\n", $value); # Where $value contains 2.1175
# Prints 'The value is 2.12.' without the quotes.
John Erjavec V ## spammers-will-be-reported(at)jevonline.com
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