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Javascript - Casting to integer on arithmetic division...

 

Been rushing on my working project and coding a lot Ajax using Ajax.net lately. Had a lot of  re-practice back to javascript. here is a quick pick of one of them.

As Javascript been a weak-typed language, sometimes it's not able to cast a variable from one type to another. as in arithmetic division, if one wants to output an integer instead of a double or else, here is a way learned from this article that's useful:

a = ( b / c ) | 0

by using a bitwise OR operation to cast a float / double back to an integer, to have a way casting some numeric values back to desired form.

also there is a nice Javascript language reference I dig a lot during this coding. thanks for the help!

Technorati Tags: asp.net , programming , javascript 

 

Posted: 2006/1/9 13:12 by rextangtw | with 7 comment(s)
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Jeffrey said:

I used to use another way:
a=parseInt(b/c)
the same result, maybe more readable.
For you ref.
# January 10, 2006 1:37 PM

rextangtw said:

Hey Jeffrey, thanks for the info. forgot to check out function list about this. but it's interesting that using a bit-wise OR can cast numbers back to integers, reminding myself back to the old days while coding x86 assembly language that only got bunch of cpu registers, haha.

Rex
# January 11, 2006 3:02 AM

Sander said:

Thanks for this tip! I'm new to JS and I expected array[array.length/2] to always return an element at least about in the middle. Not so. On un-even lengths it returns undefined. So I added your |0 and now it works great! Thanks also Jeffrey for the parseInt function. I agree it's more readable but it not as hackish :)

I use it to steer a Google Map to the middle of the path I'm displaying.
# January 25, 2007 11:39 AM

parke said:

Thank you...

# August 27, 2008 9:46 AM

barosl said:

It is a very interesting result. I have always used parseInt, but now I have another way to cast to integer!

# September 15, 2008 12:03 AM

Vasco Costa said:

You're my new god!

# January 14, 2009 7:45 PM