On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Ken Brakey wrote:
> > 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" :-)
Right, but it's still not correctly rounding, and it's not a generic
solution, whereas using printf or sprintf is.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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