"Brett W. McCoy" wrote:
>
> 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.
Yours may be broke, but it always worked for me. :-))
Ken
>
> -- Brett
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