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Re: numbers to text

• Posted by bobspringett <bobspringett at WANADOO.FR> Aug 31, 2000
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Thanks Irv
Regards
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: numbers to text


> On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > 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
>
> -- see sprintf
> object x x = {1234356.7890, 3.1415, 2}
> for i = 1 to length(x) do  -- convert numbers to strings "in place"
> x[i] = sprintf("%g",x[i]) -- replace the %g with %8.2f or whatever format u
> like
> end for
> ? length(x[2]) puts(1, x[2])
>  --
> Regards,
> Irv