Hi Monks!
I need to round a number to its nearest 5 I would say, like; if I have 33 it should give me 30, if its 3 I should get 5, if its 36 I should get 40, if its 5 it should be 5, if its 6 it should be 10 and so on. This is what I have, see the code below. Is there a better way of doing this?
use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX qw(ceil);
use POSIX qw(floor);

my $num = 11;
   $num =~ m/\d*(\d{1})/;

my $check = $1;

if($check < 5) {

  $num = ceil($num/5)*5;
  
}else {

  $num = floor($num/5)*5;
}

print "\n $num \n\n";

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Thanks for looking!

In reply to Best way to round a number. by Anonymous Monk

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