Getting a real number from scientific notation

Roger Guay irog at mac.com
Mon Nov 23 18:52:20 EST 2020


Yaknow, this whole thing is confusing. Turns out you don’t even need to set the numberFormat.
put 4.21911e+11 + 0 results in 421910000000.

Roger

> On Nov 23, 2020, at 2:44 PM, Craig newman via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Nope.
> 
> The "numberFormat" property is perfectly happy with quotes around its formatExpression. It is also perfectly happy without it. But I always use quotes for things like this.
> 
> Craig
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Roger Guay via use-livecode
> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2020 5:25 PM
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Cc: Roger Guay <irog at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: Getting a real number from scientific notation
> 
> That works. Thanks, Klaus!
> 
> Roger
> 
> 
> 
>> On Nov 23, 2020, at 1:55 PM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Roger,
>> 
>> you forgot + 0 :-)
>> 
>> on MouseUp
>> set the numberformat to 0 # NO quotes around this 0 or LC gives an 
>> error  put 4.21911e+11 + 0 End mouseUp
>> 
>> -> 421911000000
>> 
>>> Am 23.11.2020 um 22:50 schrieb Roger Guay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>> 	on MouseUp
>>> 		set the numberformat to  “0"
>>> 		put 4.21911e+11
>>> 	End mouseUp
>>> puts 4.21911e+11 into msg box
>>> What am I missing?
>>> 
>>> Roger
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> Klaus
>> 
>> --
>> Klaus Major
>> https://www.major-k.de
>> klaus at major-k.de
>> 
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