Re^2: how to always round up in perl?

[chrestomanci]

in reply to Re: how to always round up in perl?
in thread how to always round up in perl?

That fails if $n is allready an integer. You would need something like:

my $n = 3.0;
my $ceiling = int($n);
$ceiling += 1 if $ceiling != $n;

Or as a one liner:

my $ceiling = int($n) + ($n != int($n));