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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Rounding off decimals to the nearest number in PERL Post 302302005 by KevinADC on Sunday 29th of March 2009 06:17:59 PM
Old 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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floor(3)						     Library Functions Manual							  floor(3)

NAME
floor, ceil, modf, nint, rint, trunc - Round floating-point numbers to floating-point integers, return the nearest integral value, and truncate a floating-point number LIBRARY
Math Library (libm.a) SYNOPSIS
#include <math.h> double floor (double x); float floorf (float x); long double floorl (long double x); double ceil (double x); float ceilf (float x); long double ceill (long double x); double modf (double x, double *n); float modff (float x, float *n); long double modfl (long double x, long double *n); double nint (double x); float nintf (float x); long double nintl (long double x); double rint (double x); float rintf (float x); long double rintl (long double x); double trunc (double x); float truncf (float x); long double truncl (long double x); STANDARDS
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows: floor(): XPG4 ceil(): XPG4 modf(): XPG4 rint(): XPG4-UNIX Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags. DESCRIPTION
The floor(), floorf(), and floorl() functions return the largest floating-point integer value less than or equal to x. The ceil(), ceilf(), and ceill() functions return the smallest floating-point integer value greater than or equal to x. The modf(), modff(), and modfl() functions split a floating-point number x into a fractional part f and an integer part i such that |f| < 1.0 and (f + i) = x. Both f and i have the same sign as x. The modf(), modff(), and modfl() functions return f and store i into the loca- tion pointed to by n. The nint(), nintf(), and nintl() functions return the nearest integral value to x, except halfway cases are rounded to the integral value larger in magnitude. This corresponds to the FORTRAN generic intrinsic function nint(). The rint(), rintf(), and rintl() functions round x to an integral value according to the current IEEE rounding direction specified by the user. The trunc(), truncf(), and truncl() functions truncate x to an integral value. delim off floor(3)
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