Truncate (not round) decimal places in sprintf?

Question

I want to display the dollar value with two digits after the decimal point to denote the cents. In the below program the output is 23.24. Perl rounds the decimal places. How to avoid it. I want the output to be 23.23.

$val=23.2395;
$testa=sprintf("%.2f", $val);
print "\n$testa\n $val";

Conjure

You want it to always truncate? – Formula

Calculate in pennies instead of dollars, and then use int to truncate fractional pennies. – Carrasquillo

Answer 1

print int(23.2395*100)/100;  # => 23.23

Haulm

No need for the printf decorum – Filberto

Answer 2

Math::Round has different rounding methods.

use Math::Round 'nlowmult';
print nlowmult( 0.01, 23.2395 ); # 23.23

Cincinnatus