Re: how to format decimal precision of a real?
Re: how to format decimal precision of a real?
- Subject: Re: how to format decimal precision of a real?
- From: Kai Edwards <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 06:15:12 +0000
on Sat, 02 Mar 2002 17:30:27 -0800, Bill Hoffman <email@hidden> wrote:
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I can't believe I don't know (and can't find anywhere) the answer to
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this but...
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How do I format:
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a real -- 324.234234234
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as -- 324.23
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(or to any specified number of digits after the decimal).
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Is there something straightforward that I'm somehow not getting, or is
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it one of those issues where I'll have to futz around with coercing it
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to a string, setting text delimiters to split on the decimal, counting
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the chars in remainder, yada yada....sheesh. If so I can figure that
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out, but I'm hoping there's an AS equivalent of 'format' that has
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somehow escaped me. I suspect not.
Bill, this is just off the top of my head, and I haven't tested it
exhaustively - but it might be a starting point...
rnd(324.234234234, 2)
to rnd(num, decPlaces)
set e to 10 ^ decPlaces
num * e div e + num * e mod e div 1 / e
end rnd
HTH
Kai
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