Rounding Numbers

[semi-awesome]

Is there an applescript command to round a number to the nearest whole number?

[John_M]

Yes

set x to 4.567
set y to x as integer

Best wishes

John M

[kai]

@semi-awesome

Is there an applescript command to round a number to the nearest whole number?

Certainly.

{round 6.4, round 1.5}
--> {6, 2}

There are various rounding options that you can check out in the Standard Additions dictionary:

round: Round number to integer
round real – the number to round
[rounding up/down/toward zero/to nearest/as taught in school] – the rounding direction; if omitted, rounds to nearest. “to nearest” rounds .5 cases to the nearest even integer in order to decrease cumulative errors. To always round .5 away from zero, use “as taught in school.”
Result: integer – the rounded value

I believe the ability to coerce a real to an integer was introduced in Panther - so be aware that earlier system versions will trip over it.

If you merely wish to round a number down, you could also use the ‘div’ function (which is faster than rounding):

{6.4 div 1, 1.5 div 1}
--> {6, 1}

[semi-awesome]

thanks for all the help