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Re: numbers to text

• Posted by bobspringett <bobspringett at WANADOO.FR> Aug 31, 2000
• 463 views

Thanks Lewis.
Regards
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Lewis Townsend <keroltarr at HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: numbers to text


> 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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