It's obscure, yes, though the dictionary has this:
"Important! Changing the numberFormat does not automatically change the
format of a number that's already in a container. It affects numbers
only when they are calculated and then displayed or used as strings.
Otherwise, the number retains its full numeric precision."
The "already in a container" should be more precise though and specify
"in a variable". Fields are containers, but they only hold strings.
On 2/4/2015 5:02 PM, Graham Samuel wrote:
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
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