Re: Limiting floats

by John Erjavec V <jev(at)pconline.com>

Date:	Sat, 07 Oct 2000 00:49:56 -0500
To:	John Starkey <jstarkey(at)advancecreations.com>, hwg-languages(at)hwg.org
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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.

-JEV

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