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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting trimm up the decimal places in output Post 302247438 by Ikon on Wednesday 15th of October 2008 05:41:24 PM
Old 10-15-2008
Code:
$something = 123.123456789
$something = sprintf("%.3f", $something);

now something = 123.123
 

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