floating point currency

[sandyrepope]

I'm a little confused about what the floating point currency should do when a variable is dimensioned as currency.

I thought it would provide something like .50 but when I use it all my variable holds is .5 (shouldn't it have like .50 instead?)

If not, then how do I make sure that there are always two digits after the decimal?

I'd like to see the variable printed to the console screen as like .50 instead of .5.

Thanks
Sandy

[matthew]

Hi Sandy, if you want to make sure that the zero at the end is printed you can use the USING$ (http://www.thinbasic.com/public/products/thinBasic/help/html/using$.htm) Command.

Try the following script. :)




uses "Console"

dim a as currency = 1.50

dim aString as string = "#.##"

console_cls

console_writeline("Currency Test")

console_writeline using$(aString, a)

console_waitkey

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi,

using$ is very good, as it allows multiple numbers to be formatted.

In special cases when 1 number is enough, you can try out FORMAT$:


uses "Console"

dim a as currency = 1.50

console_writeline("Currency Test")

console_writeline("FORMAT$: "+FORMAT$(a, "#.00"))

console_waitkey


Those zeros mean you want exactly 2 decimal places. In format$, unlike using$, the ## would work as "2 digits when possible, lower number of them also accepted".


Petr

[sandyrepope]

Thanks. I'll give both a try to see which works best in my script.

Sandy