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Re: Creating NSDecimal
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Re: Creating NSDecimal


  • Subject: Re: Creating NSDecimal
  • From: Roland King <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:21:30 +0800

looking at the documentation I think you need to start with an NSDecimalNumber then use one of the member functions to convert it to an NSDecimal, do the things you want to do on it, and convert it back again.

Remember also that NSDecimal is really just a structure, not an object, so when you declare it you'd normally do it on the stack, not as a pointer.

so I think I'd try something like

NSDecimal decinum = [ [ NSDecimalNumber decimalNumberWithMantissa:1675 exponent:-2 isNegative:NO ] decimalValue ];

I suppose you could try to make one directly by doing

NSDecimal myDec;

then setting myDec._exponent and myDec._mantissa[], if you can figure out how it stores its mantissa but that seems to be more work and they are private so you'd be opening yourself up to apple changing the whole thing later.

HAMILTON, Steven wrote:

Hi folks,
Can someone tell me how I create an NSDecimal? The  C struct one, not the ObjC NSDecimalNumber. For performance and simplicity I'd rather use the C interface but for the life of me I can't find out how to actually create one of these and assign a value to it.

\\Declare
NSDecimal *decimal;
\\assign<file:///\\assign>? Surely its not as simple as this?
decimal = 16.75

Steven Hamilton | Solutions Designer | BT Infrastructure | Business Technology | Suncorp | Tel: 07 3135 4684
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