Formatted Float ????

Brian Riley

Has anybody got any code to control the string display of a float for fixed length display of data? I have tried all sorts of search strings in OBEX and the forum and the only mention at all was a sour grapes response to Peter Verkaik's sprintf/sscanf object because it did NOT handle float.

cheers ... BBR

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cheers ... brian riley, n1bq, underhill center, vermont
The Shoppe at Wulfden
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localroger

Isn't this what you are looking for:

http://obex.parallax.com/objects/20/

VIRAND

Except for rounding, it seems to me that fixed float (NOT interpreted as "money and pennies" math) has easy rules about
where the decimal point goes and the signs of the numbers, otherwise to me its the same as integer math. What is non-fixed
float... arbitrary precision?

Brian Riley

localroger said...
Isn't this what you are looking for:

http://obex.parallax.com/objects/20/

D'uh .... I already have that. Its the updated one where FloatToFormat was added. OK, I am back on track.

I had found that manipulating precision and commenting out the 'trim trailing zeros' code let me have some control, but this is a lot cleaner.

The FloatToFormat is limited to nine places, but that is more than adequate for the data I need to display. I did find a comment by someone who wanted to display GPS data (long/lat) in degrees and decimal degrees to 6 decimal places and would need more than 9 which should be a simple mod.

Thanks ... cheers ... BBR

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cheers ... brian riley, n1bq, underhill center, vermont
The Shoppe at Wulfden
www.wulfden.org/TheShoppe/