Thanks all. Some ingenious ways of going about it. Never ceases to amaze me when I see all the ways of doing something when I thought there was only 1. :-)
Bob On Feb 17, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: > On Feb 17, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Geoff Canyon Rev wrote: > >> function roundUp x,i -- rounds x up to the next i >> return ((x - .00001) div i + 1) * i >> end roundUp > > Works except for values like 4.000000001. > > Try this instead. It's a sort of a trick to avoid using a conditional > construction, though the logic is conditional in structure, but does it in > one line. I couldn't find a way of doing it using just LC's math functions, > maybe someone else can. > > function roundUp x > return trunc(x) + char itemoffset((x mod 1 > 0),"true,false") of "10" > end roundUp > > -- Peter > > Peter M. Brigham > pmb...@gmail.com > http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
