Re: [5.3] Converting a floating point number to integer.

["Liam Devine" <liamdevine@...>]

On 16/11/14 19:46, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> 
> 2014-11-16 21:26 GMT+02:00 Ico <lua@zevv.nl>:
>> * On 2014-11-16 20:01:03 +0100, Dirk Laurie wrote:
>>
>>> The user must decide what is correct for his application: floor, ceil,
>>> closest (coded e.g. as floor(x+0.5)), truncate (as you suggest)
>>
>> What would be the idiomatic way to truncate a float to int in Lua 5.3?
> 
> function truncate(x)
>    return x<0 and math.ceil(x) or math.floor(x)
> end
> 

Having looked at it more closely I would probably use math.modf

-- 
Liam

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