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Re: [MacPerl] Formating a $variable??

At 15.23 -0500 1999.03.03, Thierry Leveque wrote:
>I know you can nicely format an output with printf (or sprintf) but is there
>a way to format a variable?
>
>ex.
>$total = 150.6666666
>I want $total to be 150.67

Yes, with sprintf.  printf prints.  sprintf returns a string.

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