Re: How to convert number from exponential form?
Re: How to convert number from exponential form?
- Subject: Re: How to convert number from exponential form?
- From: Barry Wainwright <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:25:38 +0000
set theNumbers to {1.0139648E+5, 1.0139648E+7, 1.0139648E+9}
repeat with aNumber in theNumbers
log my normalise(aNumber)
end repeat
on normalise(theNum)
try
set {oldTIDS, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's
text item delimiters, {"E"}}
set {theSignificand, theExponent} to text items of (theNum as text)
set {oldTIDS, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's
text item delimiters, {"."}}
set {part1, part2} to text items of theSignificand
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldTIDS
on error errMsg number errNum
-- no 'E' in the number!
return theNum as text
end try
set theExponent to theExponent as integer
set part2Length to count part2
if theExponent > part2Length then
set theZeros to ""
repeat (theExponent - part2Length) times
set theZeros to theZeros & "0"
end repeat
return part1 & part2 & theZeros
else if theExponent = part2Length then
return part1 & part2
else
return part1 & (text 1 thru theExponent of part2) & "." & text
(theExponent + 1) thru -1 of part2
end if
end normalise
--
Barry
On 12 Jan 2009, at 13:02, Dave wrote:
Hi All,
The following snippet:
tell application "iTunes"
set myCapacity to the capacity of source 4
return myCapacity
end tell
returns 1.0139648E+9, whereas what I want is the String
"1013964800". If I do:
display dialog myCapacity, the vale displayed is actually what I
want, e.g. 1013964800.
How can I convert an exponential number to it's normalized decimal
equivalent?
Thanks in Advance
All the Best
Dave
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