rounding up edit

[Kenneth Brody]

On 11/22/2011 3:30 PM, scooter6 at gmail.com wrote:
> I am doing some processing (for ACH transactions to be precise)
>
> one of the fields in the file control record requires you to divide total
> records being output to the file, divide by ten, round up and zero fill to
> right.
>
> For instance, if there are 56 total records, divided by 10 = 5.6 ---- so
> this field should show up in the file as    0000006  (rounded up)
>
> In looking at edits and the syntax I don't see anything that catches my eye
> that will accomplish this, other than obviously the zero fill, right
> justify but
> not that would round up -- can this be done in an edit or do I need to
> define this in the output processing somehow?

Any reason not the use the CEIL() function?

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Kenneth Brody