Re: [CODE] Newbie

From: John Evans (evansj@HI-LINE.NET)
Date: 02/18/98


On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Chuck Reed wrote:

> base = (GET_LEVEL(ch) / total_levels) * GET_EXP(victim);
>
> However, one small problem.  When I do the GET_LEVEL(ch) / total_levels it
> usually turns out a 0.*** like its supposed to.  I thought that it would
> just accept that and continue the operation with the decimal, multiply by
> GET_EXP, get another decimal (like 1300.76) and knock it down to an integer
> there.  Any idea of how to get away with this?  I could do it if I knew
> some kind of trunc() function, but i don't know of any.

Cast it as an int.
Like so:
base = (int) (GET_LEVEL(ch) / total_levels) * GET_EXP(victim);

John Evans <evansj@hi-line.net>  --  http://www.hi-line.net/~evansj/

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
--Arthur C. Clarke


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