From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-11-01T07:49:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: How to format a number to always show two decimals?

On Oct 31, 2005, at 4:47 PM, i.v.r. wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This seems like a simple task, yet I've been unable to accomplish  
> it. Somewhere I read you could do:
>
> num.round(2).to_s("F")
>
> But that is not working, as the round method doesn't accept any  
> parameters.
>
> Could someone help me figure this out?

 >> sprintf("%.2f", 1.012345)
=> "1.01"
 >> # ... or ...
?> "%.2f" % 1.012345
=> "1.01"

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II