[quickie] Rounding up to next multiple

Paul Makepeace <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.fun
Message-ID <[email protected]>
This isn't really perl, but it might be mildly fun for a few seconds:

  $len += $page_size - $len % $page_size if $len % $page_size;

Any way of doing this in a single arithmetic expression, without the if?

Paul


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