Re: BIG number as string [NOT duplicate]
Re: BIG number as string [NOT duplicate]
- Subject: Re: BIG number as string [NOT duplicate]
- From: julifos <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:21:10 +0000
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on NumberToText(theNumber)
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
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set the theNumberAsText to theNumber as text
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if the theNumberAsText contains "E" then
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "E"
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set the theNumberAsText to every text item of theNumberAsText
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
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set theNumberString to item 1 of theNumberAsText
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set theSign to character 1 of item 2 of theNumberAsText
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set thePower to (characters 2 thru -1 of item 2 of theNumberAsText)
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as text
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
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set theValue to every text item of theNumberString
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
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set theValue to theValue as text
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if theSign is "+" then
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set zeroes to ""
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set valLength to (length of theValue) - 1
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repeat (thePower - valLength) times
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set zeroes to zeroes & "0"
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end repeat
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set theValue to theValue & zeroes
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set theConvertedNumber to (characters 1 thru (thePower + 1) of
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theValue) as text
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try
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set theConvertedNumber to theConvertedNumber & "." & (characters
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(thePower + 2) thru length of theValue) as text
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end try
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else
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set zeroes to ""
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repeat thePower - 1 times
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set zeroes to zeroes & "0"
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end repeat
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set theConvertedNumber to zeroes & theValue
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end if
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--repeat
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else
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return theNumber
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end if
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return theConvertedNumber
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end NumberToText
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--
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Paul Skinner
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On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 05:51 PM, julifos wrote:
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> Hi all...
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> I'd like retrieve a string from a big-numbers-calculation, but I can't
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> :-(
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> Eg, I'd like this:
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> 55555 * 55555
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> --> 3086358025
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> --> rather than 3.086358025E+9
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> (seems it works when displaying it in a dialog...)
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> display dialog result
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> JJ
Hi, Paul, all.
I've been testing this code and seems it doesn't work *here*, and it won't
work in any system whose decimal separator is not "."... (here it is ",")...
I've changed one line an added a little handler and now works rrrrrigth!...
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to getUserDecimalSeparator()
Instead of
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
on getUserDecimalSeparator()
0.1 as string
return result's item 2
end getUserDecimalSeparator
JJ
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