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Re: numbers to text

• Posted by Lewis Townsend <keroltarr at HOTMAIL.COM> Aug 30, 2000
• 451 views

Hello Bob,

>I have a sequence of many floating point numbers.
>I would like to check the length of each of them using getTextExtent() but
>text data is required by this function and I am getting a
>type check error when I use sequence[n].
>If I include the variable assigned to sequence[n] in quotation marks it
>will print the name of the variable.. How do I change the
>value of the variable into text notation. ie what's the Euphoria equivalent
>of the basic STR$() function.
>I've read the sequence doc. and the examples for string literals are there
>but I can't find anything for string variables.Thanks in
>advance.
>Regards
>Bob

I think what you want is the sprint() function in misc.e
example:

include misc.e
atom num
sequence text
num = 15.1976
text = sprint (num) -- text is now "15.1976"
? length (text) -- will print 7

later,
Lewis Townsend
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