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Old 03-26-2009
Rounding off decimals to the nearest number in PERL

Hi Guys,

I am generating a statistical report , below is the snippet of the code :
Quote:
$sliceStartTime = &convertTime($sTime);
$sliceEndTime = &convertTime($eTime);
$totalTime = $sliceEndTime - $sliceStartTime;
$nSlices = $totalTime / ($slice * 60);

Now, $nSlices stands for the time duration,meaning,the statistics will be displayed for that particular time duration. Trouble is, for certain values of $totalTime (which is the end time - start time ), i end up getting decimal values for $nSlices. I am coding this in PERL, and i wish i could find a way to round off the decimals to the nearest whole number. For example, if the value of $nSlices is 23.323232 i would like to round it off to 23, and if the value of $nSlices is 23.7878787 i would like to round it off to 24. Basically,anything over .5 and above gets rounded off to the next whole number, and anything below .5 gets rounded off to the previous number. Anyways that i can achieve this? Help would be much appreciated!
 
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VARIANT_ROUND(3)							 1							  VARIANT_ROUND(3)

variant_round - Rounds a variant to the specified number of decimal places

SYNOPSIS
mixed variant_round (mixed $variant, int $decimals) DESCRIPTION
Returns the value of $variant rounded to $decimals decimal places. PARAMETERS
o $variant - The variant. o $decimals - Number of decimal places. Note As with all the variant arithmetic functions, the parameters for this function can be either a PHP native type (integer, string, floating point, boolean or NULL), or an instance of a COM, VARIANT or DOTNET class. PHP native types will be converted to variants using the same rules as found in the constructor for the "VARIANT" class. COM and DOTNET objects will have the value of their default property taken and used as the variant value. The variant arithmetic functions are wrappers around the similarly named functions in the COM library; for more information on these functions, consult the MSDN library. The PHP functions are named slightly differently; for example variant_add(3) in PHP cor- responds to VarAdd() in the MSDN documentation. RETURN VALUES
Returns the rounded value. SEE ALSO
round(3). PHP Documentation Group VARIANT_ROUND(3)