Formatting a number with two or more decimal points

[Matt Maier]

This works with the two cases you described. I've heard that "repeat while"
isn't the fastest option, but it sounded like 6 repeats would be an extreme
case, so it probably doesn't matter.

on testingTesting
   -- 10.26.12.47.38.52.71
   -- 10.26 0.12 0.47 0.38 0.52 0.71
   --   put "80.26.12" into tBlerg
   --   put "10.26.12.47.38.52.71" into tBlerg
   put "10.26" into tBlerg
   put convertWordToNumbers(tBlerg) into tBlergBlerg
end testingTesting

function convertWordToNumbers pWordN
   put pWordN into tWord
   split tWord by "."
   if the number of lines of the keys of tWord > 2 then
      put tWord[1] & "." & tWord[2] into tAll
      put 3 into tCounter
      repeat while tCounter <= the number of lines of the keys of tWord
         put " 0."& tWord[tCounter] after tAll
         put tCounter + 1 into tCounter
      end repeat
      return tAll
   end if
   return pWordN
end convertWordToNumbers

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Alejandro Tejada <capellan2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Recently, while updating Ian's SVGL
> to import some SVG archives that
> you could download from OpenClipart.org
> I found an error processing this number:
> 80.26.12
>
> This looks like a number with two decimal points
> but it's a shorthand for two numbers that some
> SVG editors use to save space by replacing two numbers
> like 80.26 0.12 with a single word like this: 80.26.12
> Notice that two characters: " 0" (a space and
> number zero) are missing.
>
> Quickly, I scripted a workaround like this:
>
> Function ConvertWordtoNumbers pWordN
>
> put pWordN into tWordNumber -- pWordN contains "80.26.12"
>
> if "." is in tWordNumber
> then
>
> replace "." with cr in tWordNumber
> if the number of lines of tWordNumber = 3
> then
> return line 1 of tWordNumber & "." & line 2 of tWordNumber && "0." & line 3
> of tWordNumber
> else return pWordN -- unchanged word or unchanged number
> end if
>
> else
> return pWordN
> end if
>
> end ConvertWordtoNumbers
>
> My question is:
> How could you rewrite this code
> to make it more elegant, faster,
> efficient and cover an extreme
> case like this:
> 10.26.12.47.38.52.71
> (6 numbers in a single word)
> 10.26 0.12 0.47 0.38 0.52 0.71
>
> Autotracing applications could produce
> curves as unusual as these.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Al
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