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From: "Cron, Daniel" <Daniel dot Cron at gs dot com>
Subject: RE: Retaining Data Format
Date: Apr 16 2002 1:20PM

Sabherwal, Balvinder (MBS) wrote:
> I am trying to select few rows from the database using ct_sql function. If
I
> exec. same sql from an ISQL prompt I see the zeros after the decimal point
> where as if I try to print the results from the perl script, it doesn't
show
> the zeros after the decimal. (i.e. 34.00 and 35.30 in isql are printed as
34
> and 35.3 respectively in perl)

> Is this the normal behavior?? is there anyway I can get the values in the
> same format as in the ISQL Session??

Try printf or sprintf.

For example:

printf "%10.2f", $x;

or

$formatted_x = sprintf "%10.2f", $x;