Anyone got a date math routine?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:32:45AM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> >I see INT(), but no RND(), and the only place 'rounding' appears in
> >the manual is in Jim Asman's copy about LJ printing...
> >
> >Am I blind?
> 
> There is no "round function" because none is needed.  It's done for you
> automatically.  For example, put "1.666" into a .2 field and you get "1.67".
> Store "125"/"100" into a .0 field and you get "1".

This *seems* like a Really Neat Idea... but in my case here, what it
means is that I need to know the length of the integer part of the
result of dividing by 57 million *before I declare the length of the
target field*.

I'm not sure I can do that.

Cheers,
-- jra
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