Re: Checking for odd/even

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Martijn van Exel wrote:

> Why the $! does
>
> (int($cnt/2) == ($cnt/2))
>
> not return TRUE for an even $cnt and FALSE for an odd $cnt ?

Use the modulus operator %.  It returns a remainder of a division -- in
the case of modulus 2, it will return either 0 or 1.

-- Brett
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