Hi-

I'm trying to get a value to display on a template that is one field multiplied by another field.

I saw that you can do something like:

<%Hits * 5%>

and that would return '50' if the value of Hits was 10. My question is whether it's possible to have two variables in the calculation such as:

<%Hits * Rate%>

When I tried this it didn't seem to work. Does anyone know if this is possible and what the proper syntax would be?

--Jack Walter

Hi,

You could try:

<%Hits * $Rate%>

I think that will work..

Cheers,

Alex

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Thanks very much that worked :)

Not to get greedy, but is there any way to get it to show two decimal places? In other words, if the Hits were 7 and the Rate was .20, the result is displayed as 1.40 rather than 1.4?

I'm not 100% sure how to do it but you may have to use sprintf

sprintf("%.2f", ($VAR * $VAR));

May require a new tag ?

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Hi,

Going to be easier to make it global:

calculation => sub { my $tags = shift; return sprintf ("%.2f", $tags->{Hits} * $tags->{Rate}); }

and then use <%calculation%>.

Cheers,

Alex

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Excellent. Thanks very much for the help!