Hi.
You have replies, and can see that the task is one of parsing characters into a
useful form.
This is a function I wrote in HC a long time ago to relieve the tedious task of
writing out the text of a number when issuing checks. It should be instructive,
as it sort of acts in the same way. You call it as:
digitToWord(yourNumericalValue):
function digitToWord theDigits
put "One,Two,Three,Four,Five,Six,Seven,Eight,Nine" into ones
put "Ten,Eleven,Twelve,Thirteen,Fourteen,Fifteen,Sixteen,Seventeen,"¬
& "Eighteen,Nineteen" into teens
put ",Twenty,Thirty,Forty,Fifty,Sixty,Seventy,Eighty,Ninety" into tens
set numberformat to "#.00"
get offset(".",theDigits)
if it 0 then
put " Dollars and" && char it + 1 to it + 2 of theDigits & "/100" into
temp
delete char it to it + 2 of theDigits
end if
get number(chars of theDigits)
if char it - 1 of theDigits = 1 then put item char it of theDigits + 1 of
teens before temp
else
put item char it of theDigits of ones before temp
put item char it - 1 of theDigits of tens & space before temp
end if
if it 3 then put item char it - 2 of theDigits of ones && "Hundred" &
space before temp
if it = 4 then put item char it - 3 of theDigits of ones && "Thousand" &
space before temp
if it = 5 then put item char it - 4 of theDigits of tens && "Thousand" &
space before temp
if it = 6 then
put item char 1 of theDigits of ones && "Hundred" && item char 2 of
theDigits of tens && item char 3 of theDigits of ones & " Thousand " before
temptemp
end if
return temp
end digitToWord
-----Original Message-----
From: dunbarx <dunb...@aol.com>
To: use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sun, Jul 29, 2012 12:30 pm
Subject: Re: Is it really this hard to print currency values?
Hi.
I wrote a checkWriting stack in HC about 25 years ago. No modulo, just text
parsing. It is compact and utterly basic. If nobody else replies in the next
day, I will pull it from my office and send you the code. It is just chunk
engineering. Fun stuff.
Craig Newman
-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sun, Jul 29, 2012 12:09 pm
Subject: Is it really this hard to print currency values?
As I sat down to finally encode currency into my output, I pulled old
answers from older questions and did more searches.
Is it *really* this hard to output currency?
To turn 123456.78 into $123,456.78, everything I'm finding would have
me using modulo arithmetic to produce three values, with these three
values being output in the string (4, actually, to allow values in the
millions).
Am I missing something obvious here?
--
The Hawkins Law Firm
Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
(702) 508-8462
hawkinslawf...@gmail.com
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