03-29-2009
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Originally Posted by
rdlover
Thanks Rikxik! I guess that's gonna work! I am trying to write a logical if else statement in Perl to use the 'ceil' and 'floor' functions , but my novice programming skills is hampering the progress!
This is what i am trying to accomplish , if the value of a variable $nSlice is a number greater than .5 (ex : 23.5 or 16.8 or 17.9 etc), ceil that number,else floor that number. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated. Thanks again!
More than likely you do not need to use the POSIX module, your numbers do not appear to be that critical or important, using sprintf or printf should work.
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