[Lua] Issues with monitor.write()

At the moment, I'm working on an elevator control turtle that will take touchscreen input. I plan to have it simply write floor numbers to the monitor, and have the player click the appropriate number. However, monitor.write() is behaving strangely. If I pass it an integer to write, in this case 5, it will return "5.0". Is there a way I can make it return simply "5", and as such avoid having to reposition the cursor and overwrite the decimal with whitespace?

Will post code shortly, Chrome has a tendency to crash on me.

Edit: Code:

m = peripheral.wrap("left") --Wrapping the monitor
w = peripheral.wrap("right") --Wrapping the REther module
local floor = 1 --Turtle starts at floor 1. Will play with filesystem so that I dont have to replace it every time the world loads
local floors= 5 --Highest Floor
local draw = 1
function drawing() --Relevant Code
m.setTextScale(2) --Just a bit easier to click
while draw <= floors do --Start the loop
m.setCursorPos((draw*2)-1,1) --Set the position - I want output in odd numbered positions only!
m.write(draw) --Assume draw is 5. This writes "5.0" to the monitor
write(draw) -- This outputs "5" to the console. How can I do this on the monitor?
--wait = read("*") -- Just for debug
draw = draw + 1 -- Advance the loop
end
draw = 1 -- Reset the variable so that this function can run again at the next floor
end
drawing()

If you pass the number to tostring first, like m.write(tostring(draw)), it will only write the '5'.

Brilliant. Exactly what I needed - Thank you so much!

If you have an further questions with monitor.write(), it might be of use to know that it acts exactly as term.write(), which is way more documented

personally I prefer to redirect the terminal to the monitor, that way you can use write and print functions which allow for delimited strings (i.e. \n \t etc)

example

Spoiler

local mon = peripheral.wrap('left')

term.redirect( mon ) -- give terminal control to the monitor

print('This will go \n over several lines unlike \n with term.write and mon.write')

term.restore() -- give control back to the computer

however to do things like text scale you still need to do it with

mon.setTextScale( <size> )

even after redirecting…