From 9bb570af7f58b95e410ae2fe4f9c4121fd83fafb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rodrigo Arias Mallo <rodrigo.arias@bsc.es>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 11:49:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tools: add floatTruncate function

---
 garlic/tools.nix | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/garlic/tools.nix b/garlic/tools.nix
index 836ee73..db9c2a7 100644
--- a/garlic/tools.nix
+++ b/garlic/tools.nix
@@ -77,6 +77,14 @@ let
     optionalInherit = l: a: filterAttrs (n: v: v!=null)
       (overrideExisting (genNullAttr l) a);
 
+    # Given a float f, truncates it and returns the resulting the integer
+    floatTruncate = f: let
+      strFloat = toString f;
+      slices = splitString "." strFloat;
+      front = elemAt slices 0;
+    in
+      toInt front;
+
   };
 in
   gen