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Re: [xsl] Establishing the floor of a range a number belongs to

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On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 04:21:38PM -0500, Graydon Saunders scripsit:
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 02:03:25PM -0700, Mark scripsit:
> > I am parsing around 3500 numbers and want to be able to establish
> > the floor of the range each number belongs to. For instance, 326
> > belongs to the range "300-399" and its floor is "300", the value I
> > want. Another example would be 1627, whose range is 1600-1699 and
> > whose floor is 1600. I failed to find the right combination of XPath
> > math functions [mode(), floor()], etc., to do this.
> [snip, yeah, that is indeed painful]
> > What function or combination of functions do I need to accomplish my goal?
> 
> What's wrong with 
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> replace(CatNumbers/@scott-number,'\d\d$','00')
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> Which will replace the last two digits with zeros?
> 
> Alternatively,
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> floor(CatNumbers/@scott-number / 100) * 100

div! div!

floor(CatNumber/@scott-number div 100) * 100

Sorry about that; you won't like what the slash does.

-- Graydon

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