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[agmark]

I need to do some formatting of numbers and it seems Brightscript is fairly limited in math functions. Does anyone have a good solution for formatting numbers to 2 decimal places? I'm pulling in numbers from external sources and they come in unformatted. For example: 160 or 160.9 or 160.95 or 160.955 or -160 etc. I need a to format as 160.95 or -160.95. I'm sure I could come up with some hack to do it, but there's probably a better way than I'm coming up with.
TIA
Mark

[RokuMarkn]

Something like this ought to work:

v = Int((value + .005) * 100)
units = int(v/100)
decimal = v mod 100
d = decimal.ToStr()
if d < 10 then d = "0" + d
formatted = units.ToStr() + "." + d

I just wrote this off the top of my head and haven't tested it.

--Mark

[agmark]

ok, I added this:

Int(lp) = content.lprice

to deal with the type mismatch of my initial value, but I'm also getting a type mismatch on this line that I'm not sure about:

if d < 10 then d = "0" + d

Is it the type of "10" that's mismatched?
The code looks like:

Int(lp) = content.lprice
v = Int((lp + .005) * 100)
units = int(v/100)
decimal = v mod 100
d = decimal.ToStr()
if d < 10 then d = "0" + d
formatted = units.ToStr() + "." + d
print formatted

[RokuMarkn]

That should be

if decimal < 10 then d = "0" + d

--Mark

[gonzotek]

"agmark" wrote:
ok, I added this:

Int(lp) = content.lprice

to deal with the type mismatch of my initial value, but I'm also getting a type mismatch on this line that I'm not sure about:

if d < 10 then d = "0" + d

Is it the type of "10" that's mismatched?
The code looks like:

Int(lp) = content.lprice
v = Int((lp + .005) * 100)
units = int(v/100)
decimal = v mod 100
d = decimal.ToStr()
if d < 10 then d = "0" + d
formatted = units.ToStr() + "." + d
print formatted

The line immediately above the one that has the mismatch error sets the type of d to String. Since you still have the numerical decimal variable, try

if decimal < 10 then d = "0" + d

/edit Mark beat me to it 🙂

[agmark]

Haha. Good eyes guys! Thanks for the quick help. I also had my initial value converted to an integer wrong.

Int(lp) = content.lprice

should be:

lp = content.lprice
lp = lp.ToInt()

[RokuMarkn]

Hm, I don't understand that part. Why are you converting it to an integer? If you do that, the decimal part will always be .00

--Mark

[agmark]

You're right. I'm getting a type mismatch and I thought that converting the inital string to an int would solve it, but as you say, now I'm getting zeros. How do I convert the initial value to something that this line can deal with?

v = Int((lp + .005) * 100)

My initial value from the xml parse is

content.lprice

assigned to lp so I could experiment with the value with:

lp = content.lprice

[RokuMarkn]

You probably want ToFloat

lp = content.lprice.ToFloat()

--Mark

[agmark]

Now that's something I hadn't even tried. It looks like it's working on positive numbers, but I'm getting a weird format for negatives. I'm not sure why, but a negative number is formatting like: -1.0-63 whereas a postive is correct like: 0.07. Any clue why?