Ceil

ceil rounds a decimal value to the next highest integer. For example, ceil(29.02) returns 30.

Syntax

Arguments

decimal

A field that uses the decimal data type, a literal value like 17.62, or a call to another function that outputs a decimal.

Return type

Integer

Example

The following example rounds a decimal field to the next highest integer.

The following are the given field values.

For these field values, the following values are returned.