"Brett W. McCoy" wrote:
>
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Ken Brakey wrote:
>
> > Try int(number+.5), it will round up anything more than
> > '.5' to the next integer --OR-- truncate less than '.5'
> > Learned that twenty years ago, in BASIC. :-)
>
> That's BASIC, this is Perl. Perl's int truncates towards 0 (as the FAQ
> mentioned), so adding .5 isn't going to do anything.
>
> $ perl -e '$num = 12.3; print int($num + .5);'
> 12
Try it with "12.6" :-)
Ken
>
> -- Brett
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