How To Format The Number Of Decimal Places In Perl

Author: erics, October 10th, 2011

my $number = 123.45;
printf("%.3f", $number);

1 2	my $number = 123.45; printf("%.3f", $number);

Outputs: 123.450

How To Pad Leading Zeros Using Perl sprintf

Author: erics, May 11th, 2011

To pad a number with leading zeros, up to a max of 5 places:

sprintf("%05d",$value);

1	sprintf("%05d",$value);