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cast

Writing (type)value to force a conversion that might lose information.

An explicit conversion (cast) requests a conversion that may lose data or fail, such as (int)3.9, which truncates to 3.

Examples

  • (int)9.99 is 9: the cast chops the fraction off instead of rounding.

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