{"id":8081,"date":"2015-01-29T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/01\/29\/powertip-express-percentage-in-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:35:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:35:42","slug":"powertip-express-percentage-in-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-express-percentage-in-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Express Percentage in PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn an easy method to express a percentage in Windows PowerShell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to express a two-decimal place percentage? For example, I have multiple <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;calculations in a Windows PowerShell script, and I am tired of always dividing two numbers, multiplying <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;by a hundred, and trimming the results to two decimal places.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the special&nbsp;<b>&ldquo;P&rdquo;<\/b>&nbsp;format specifier as an overload to the&nbsp;<b>ToString<\/b><i>&nbsp;<\/i>method, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">PS C:\\&gt; (5\/21).tostring(&quot;P&quot;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">23.81 %<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn an easy method to express a percentage in Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to express a two-decimal place percentage? For example, I have multiple &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;calculations in a Windows PowerShell script, and I am tired of always dividing two numbers, multiplying &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,398,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-8081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-getting-started","tag-numbers","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn an easy method to express a percentage in Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to express a two-decimal place percentage? For example, I have multiple &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;calculations in a Windows PowerShell script, and I am tired of always dividing two numbers, multiplying &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}