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andy7t
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Oct 24, 2003, 9:13 AM

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Numbers	Can't Post

I need to make sure that an input is in a money form: i.e 5.00 or 5.24

So, firstly, needs to have numbers only (and decimal point), 2 numbers after the decimal point.

Perhaps if the user only enters 5, it could add a double 0 to the end?

davorg
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Oct 24, 2003, 9:56 AM

Post #2 of 5 (545 views)

Re: [andy7t] Numbers [In reply to]	Can't Post

printf and sprintf are your friends.

Code

$ perl -e 'printf "%.2f\n", 5' 
5.00 
$ perl -e 'printf "%.2f\n", 5.123' 
5.12 
$ perl -e 'printf "%.2f\n", 5.567' 
5.57

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andy7t
User

Oct 25, 2003, 1:33 AM

Post #3 of 5 (537 views)

Re: [davorg] Numbers [In reply to]	Can't Post

Any way of putting that in a variable, because it's for an auction you see- it needs to be stored in a database.

$bidamount=$ perl -e 'printf "%.2f\n", 5.567' ;

davorg
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Oct 25, 2003, 4:57 AM

Post #4 of 5 (536 views)

Re: [andy7t] Numbers [In reply to]	Can't Post

Yeah, use sprintf instead of printf. I recommend you take a look at the docs.

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KevinR
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Oct 25, 2003, 9:00 PM

Post #5 of 5 (532 views)

Re: [andy7t] Numbers [In reply to]	Can't Post

a simple example using sprintf:

$bidamount = sprintf("%.2f", $bidamount);
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