Question

in powershell v2, I need to divide 22 by 8 and then strip all the decimal places after the decimal point (which is on my system a comma). No rounding.

As you see. 22/8 equals 2,75

PS C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator> $(22/8)
2,75

Expected result is 2.

Strangely, I get different results when using different ways to calculate the same.

PS C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator> "{0:N0}" -f $(22/8)
3

PS C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator> "{0:N0}" -f 2.75
3

PS C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator> "{0:N0}" -f 2,75
2

Some other examples…

PS C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator> "{0:N0}" -f 2.15
2

PS C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator> "{0:N0}" -f 2,15
2

What is the cause?

Answer 1

Will this work for you?

[math]::Floor(22/8)

Result: 2