Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003, Roberto Zini wrote:
>

[snip]

>
> For numeric manipulations you may want to use the ``bc'' program, setting
> the scale appropriately, or perhaps perl (the double quotes below around
> the perl -e argument expand $variable from your shell, and the qq() is
> perlish for double quotes that makes it easier to do things like this from
> the shell).
>
> value=`perl -e "printf (qq(%f.2d), $variable);"`
> ^ ^

>


Bill,

thanks for your help.

Here's the correct syntax for the above command:

value=`perl -e "printf (qq(%.2f), $variable);"`

Please notice I removed the "f" after the "%" char and the trailing "d"
after the "2".

Thanks,
Roberto
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