{"id":8151,"date":"2015-01-26T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/01\/26\/powertip-round-number-up-or-down-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:35:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:35:46","slug":"powertip-round-number-up-or-down-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-round-number-up-or-down-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Round Number Up or Down with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Easily use Windows PowerShell to round a number up or down. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;I want only a whole number returned, so I want the number rounded up or down as appropriate. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;How can I do this with Windows PowerShell?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Cast the number as an integer, and Windows PowerShell will round the number up or down <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;as appropriate, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">PS C:\\&gt; [int]22.4<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">22<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">PS C:\\&gt; [int]22.5<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">22<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">PS C:\\&gt; [int]22.6<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">23<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Easily use Windows PowerShell to round a number up or down. &nbsp; &nbsp;I want only a whole number returned, so I want the number rounded up or down as appropriate. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;How can I do this with Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;Cast the number as an integer, and Windows PowerShell will round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-8151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-getting-started","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Easily use Windows PowerShell to round a number up or down. &nbsp; &nbsp;I want only a whole number returned, so I want the number rounded up or down as appropriate. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;How can I do this with Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;Cast the number as an integer, and Windows PowerShell will round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}