Thanks Jacque, a gold mine of information as usual. But it’s pretty obscure, isn’t it? All this started for me because I wanted to test if two numbers were equal, knowing that they probably weren’t exactly equal to the last decimal place but nevertheless were ‘engineering equal’ as it were - say to six places of decimals. So I tried to truncate them to that length and then compare them. More fool me. But now I think I know what should be done, thanks to you - and to everyone else who replied.
Graham > On 4 Feb 2015, at 23:44, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > > On 2/4/2015 3:01 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: >> So really, if I want an uncomplicated string of characters derived >> from a number via setting the numberFormat and then doing a >> calculation, how do I get it? > > You can turn it into a string by putting empty after it: > > put 1.55555 into tVar -- number > set the numberformat to "0.00" > add 1 to tVar -- still a number > put tVar into fld 1 -- numberformat applied now, field contains a string > "2.55" > add 1 to tVar -- still a number, contains 3.55555 > put empty after tVar -- numberformat applies, tVar is a string > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
