On 23/09/2013, at 8:39 PM, "FlexibleLearning.com"
wrote:
> Thank you, Monte, but the numberFormat of the output is somewhat
> non-standard...
>
>put format("%E",0.01234) --> 1.234000E-006
>
> Can this syntax include alternative numberformats?
>
> For example:
>'0.00' --> 1.23E-06
Thank you, Monte, but the numberFormat of the output is somewhat
non-standard...
put format("%E",0.01234) --> 1.234000E-006
Can this syntax include alternative numberformats?
For example:
'0.00' --> 1.23E-06
'0.###' --> 1.234E-06
'00.' --> 01.2340E-06
Just asking as my "
On 23/09/2013, at 7:32 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:
>> If you have a shorter alternative or find any glitches, please post!
>
>
> put format("%e",0.01)
Oops... I see you wanted uppercase E:
put format("%E",0.01)
;-)
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Monte Goulding
M E R Goulding - software development services
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On 23/09/2013, at 7:06 PM, "FlexibleLearning.com"
wrote:
> If you have a shorter alternative or find any glitches, please post!
put format("%e",0.01)
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Monte Goulding
M E R Goulding - software development services
mergExt - There's an external for that!
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I needed to convert decimals to E notation and as it took me a while, I
thought it might be useful to others.
If you have a shorter alternative or find any glitches, please post!
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put fld "in" into tNum
put fld "NumberFormat" into tNumberFormat --| to specify output precision.
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