On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 01:08, Alasdair Tennant wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:52:32 +1300 > > Andy Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, totaly bending my brain out of shape this afternoon & evening
> > One (admittedly crappy) way to truncate to integer: > > echo 1234.567890|sed s/\\..*// > > For rounding you have to add .5 first. One could use bc itself [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo "scale=0; (3.4999 + 0.5)/1.0" | bc 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo "scale=0; (3.5001 + 0.5)/1.0" | bc 4 -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
