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Changing floating number precision in SKILL

How can I change the precision of a floating number. For example I'm trying to convert 23.3455 to 23.34 & this's what I'm doing:

x=23.3255

y=printf("%5.2f" x)

'y' is now a symbol. HOw can this be converted to a floating number?

Thanks,

Adil

kbhow over 15 years ago

Hi Adil,
In order to get the value of a string, you can use function evalstring.
Eg: x = 23.3255
sprintf(y "%5.2f" x) ; this will return y="23.33"
evalstring(y) ; evaluate string value, you will get your answer here
Happy testing
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Quek over 15 years ago

Hi Adil
How about this? : )
y=evalstring(sprintf(nil "%5.2f" x))
Best regards
Quek
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Andrew Beckett over 15 years ago

Personally I never like using evalstring for things like this.

I'd probably do:

y=round(x*100)/100.0

If you really want to use the sprintf approach, you could use atof() instead of evalstring.

Regards,

Andrew
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sprinter over 15 years ago

Thanks everybody!
Regards,
Adil.
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