How to format a Variant type variable when displaying it as a string?

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I am doing a Simple Maths action to calculate a percentage (actually 2 - I multiply the numerator by 100, then divide it by the denominator).  The resulting variable is a Variant, and ends up with 12 digits after the decimal point.  I only want 1 or 2 digits after the decimal, e.g. 75.2 or 70.34.  

Is there a way to format a variable when displaying it?  I could not see a way to do that, and since it is a Variant, the format field is not open in the variable definition window.  I figure I must be missing something.

Thanks,

Jonathan

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The formatstring doesn’t apply to variants because it’s not possible (the format function we call cannot deal with variants). Is there any reason you don’t use a Float variable type to store your result?