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Rating value obsession |
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Wednesday Nov 20 1:12:04 2024 |
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I have, for at least one week, been obsessed with the rating value |
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of a certain online site, let's call it film affinity. |
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It goes like this: The site assigns a rating value to the |
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films/series that are published there. The issue raises when it com |
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to evaluating those numbers. |
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There are three cases here: |
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1.- The number is a float, like for example: 6.3 or 5.9 |
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2.- The number is an integrer, like for example: 5 or 6 |
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3.- There is no rating value whatsoever so the rating value is 0, o |
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for coherence 0.0 |
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Then if I am interested in evaluating the number I need to cover |
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three different cases. When I started using bash I read somewhere |
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that bash is not very good with maths, it turns out to be true, you |
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have to find your way around it. So I finally ended up doing this: |
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1.- If the rating value is a float number, it is ok. I can read the |
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float number. 6.7 --> 6.7 |
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2.- If the rating value is an integrer, it is ok. I can read it lik |
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this: 5 --> 5.0 or 6 --> 6.0 |
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3.- If the rating value is null, it is ok. I can read it as 0.0 |
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In short, it is an if/elif/else statement in the bash shell |
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Great success!!! |
