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Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated April 24, 2020)
This tip applies to Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
VBA, true to its BASIC roots, provides a function to return the integer value of an expression. This means that anything to the right of the decimal point is truncated. Thus, if a formula would normally result in a value such as 18.73, then the integer value of that formula would result in 18.
The syntax for the integer function is as follows:
x = Int(y)
where x is the result and y is a value or an expression that evaluates to a value.
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2015-09-26 10:40:42
Rick Rothstein
The Int function does not "truncate" the floating point number, rather, it returns the first integer less than or equal to the given number. For positive numbers, the effect is to truncate the decimal part, but for negative numbers, not so... Int(-18.73) becomes -19. The VB function that works the way you described by truncating the decimal part for all values is the Fix function... Fix(18.72) becomes 18 and Fix(-18.73) becomes -18.
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