RE: fractional cents

Bernie,

> there's the fairly awful:
> 
>      sprintf ($amt =~ /\.\d\d\d/? "%7.3f": "%7.2f"), $amt
                                             Woops. ^^^^^^^
I think you meant :
       sprintf ($amt =~ /\.\d\d\d/? "%7.3f": "%7.2f" , $amt)

> There *must* be some really sneaky/clever way to switch the 
> format from two placed to three places just when I need it....

I claim neither sneaky nor clever, but I have got a few of %'s,
sprintf's and $amt's, and that can't be bad can it?

sprintf sprintf("%%%d.%df", 7, 2+$amt=~/\...\d/), $amt

Alistair


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