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