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anyone know how to round unsing perl. I need to truncate my price to the nearest cent. I need to format the output as a dollar price. I know how to add the dollar sign, I need to make it so I always have two decimal places.

perldoc -f printf

printf("%.f2n",$var);

Try that or something like it.

I have a Best way in which u will get acrute result:

I have used some thing like this
Connect to any backend database for Eg ORACLE, use this Statement
"Select round($varname) from dual"
and then fetch the row.

you will get Proper result.

The other way is to use MATH Module
Available with perl check in lib directory.

I think this will help u

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Ajay Lulia.

got it working.

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

that did the trick. It added a $ to the front and truncated to the nearest cent.

thanks for your help everyone.

depends how accurate you want to be I guess!