On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:54:20AM -0400, Bernie Cosell wrote: > On 13 Aug 2003 at 14:46, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > > This isn't really perl, but it might be mildly fun for a few seconds: > > > > $len += $page_size - $len % $page_size if $len % $page_size; > > > > Any way of doing this in a single arithmetic expression, without the if? > > How about: > > $len = int(($len + $page_size-1) / $page_size) ;
Yep. (Altho ITYM, $len = int(($len + $page_size-1) / $page_size) * $page_size; ) Paul -- Paul Makepeace ....................................... http://paulm.com/ "What is elephant? Palak Aloo over rice." -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/
