How do I round a number in JavaScript?

floating-point, javascript, numbers, rounding

Solution

You hav to convert your input into a number and then round them:

function toInteger(number){ 
  return Math.round(  // round to nearest integer
    Number(number)    // type cast your input
  ); 
};

Or as a one liner:

function toInt(n){ return Math.round(Number(n)); };

Testing with different values:

toInteger(2.5);           // 3
toInteger(1000);          // 1000
toInteger("12345.12345"); // 12345
toInteger("2.20011E+17"); // 220011000000000000

Problem

While working on a project, I came across a JS-script created by a former employee that basically creates a report in the form of ``` Name : Value Name2 : Value2 ``` etc. The peoblem is that the values can sometimes be floats (with different precision), integers, or even in the form `2.20011E+17`. What I want to output are pure integers. I don't know a lot of JavaScript, though. How would I go about writing a method that takes these sometimes-floats and makes them integers?

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