Re: Decimal Point Truncations?
Re: Decimal Point Truncations?
- Subject: Re: Decimal Point Truncations?
- From: Jed Verity <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 10:28:54 -0800
What about something like this:
set diskSize to diskSize as string
set trunkSize to text 1 thru ((offset of "." in diskSize)+1) of diskSize
HTH,
Jed
On 2/8/01 10:08 AM, Gregory Smith uttered these immortal words:
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Hello,
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I'm having a problem truncating decimals. Can anyone help?
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Example:
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set diskSize to free space of startup disk
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--> script code to recalculate diskSize variable to Gb <--
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display dialog diskSize
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I want to get the disk size and display the result in Gb with one decimal
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place (If possible). Currently, the full code above gets something like
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54.6464646748783838. I would like it to display 54.6. I've tried rounding
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and it returns the same 54.6464646748783838 for some reason that escapes me.
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As always, thanks in advance!
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Cheers,
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Greg Smith
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