Rounding in Crystal XI

Post Author: DAndre10
CA Forum: General
I'm using the following function to determine a person's age:
round(({calcdata.dob},{calcdata.dodec})/360,3)
I am rounding the result to three decimal places, but does anyone know of any other rounding features available in Crystal? I would like to round the function to the nearest month. Thanks.

Post Author: V361
CA Forum: General
Round (x)
Round (x, #places)
x is a Number or Currency to be rounded off.
#places is a whole number indicating the number of decimal places x is to be rounded off to.
Round rounds to the nearest whole number if the #places argument is excluded. If the value to the right of the decimal point is .499 or below, the program rounds to the next lowest number. If the value to the right of the decimal point is .5 or above, it rounds to the next highest number.
If the #places argument is used, the value in x is rounded to the nearest decimal place indicated by #places. Specifying #places as 0 works identical to leaving the #places argument off. You can also specify a negative number for #places; the number will be rounded to the nearest tenth (.1), hundredth (.01), or thousandth (.001), and so on.

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