int to string

hkimball

Quick question.

What am I doing wrong here?· When I pass in this negative number, convert to int then back to string i get 53,502.· If I pass in 12034 it comes back 12,304.· Am I missing something in my tostr funtion call?·

tempint := num.FromStr(STRING("-12034"),num#DEC)
tv.str(num.tostr(tempint,num#ddec))

Thanks in advance.

Harold

Paul Baker

Which object are you using (the num one)?

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Paul Baker
Propeller Applications Engineer

Parallax, Inc.

hkimball

yes numbers, sorry about that

Paul Baker

Im not getting the results you are, I ran the attached program and the following was displayed:

-12034
-12034
-12,034

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Paul Baker
Propeller Applications Engineer

Parallax, Inc.

hkimball

sorry i did not get back to your response sooner but i was away from my hardware for a few days.

i think i figured out what was causing the problem though, thanks to your example

in your example tempint is a long, in my code tempint was a word, when tempint is a word the results i stated are returned by the conversion

question??
if you are using signed integers, the variables passed to the numbers object must be longs???

hkimball

ok, i answered my own question. i went to the numbers object and looked inside and it is expecting longs.

M. K. Borri

You have to sign-extend stuff in this case, right?

hkimball

you are right.
i just tried it out and i can keep my variable a word as long as i sign-extend the value when i pass it into the tostr function

thanks for the tip