Re: Round to the nearest X

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On 4/28/05, Greg Donald <destiney@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> do {
>     $num++;
> } while( $num % 500 );

Actually that fails for the base number 500.  This works for everything:

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php

$num = isset( $_SERVER[ 'argv' ][ 1 ] )
    ? $_SERVER[ 'argv' ][ 1 ]
    : 0;

if( $num % 500 )
{
    do {
        $num++;
    } while( $num % 500 );
}
    
echo $num;

?>

> ./round.php
0

> ./round.php 499
500

> ./round.php 500
500

> ./round.php 501
1000


-- 
Greg Donald
Zend Certified Engineer
http://destiney.com/

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