How do I use decimal numbers in XBasic?

[Easy Rider]

I tried:

Dim Points as n

Points = 0.2 + 3.0 + 5.3

but it's not working. It's not giving me 9.5
It's giving me 9

What do I do?

[Steve Workings]

Re: How do I use decimal numbers in XBasic?

Where or how are you doing this?

In Interactive:

dim points as n
points = 0.2 + 3.0 + 5.3
?points
= 8.5

Are you doing it in a table or using a form that doesn't have enough decimal points defined for the input or display?

[aschone]

Re: How do I use decimal numbers in XBasic?

From the interactive window

Dim Points as n


Points = 0.2 + 3.0 + 5.3
?Points
= 8.5

I am hazarding a guess that the value is being rounded up when you are displaying the variable. Since you posted in the Application server section I am also supposing that its on a webpage you want to display the value, that I can not help with.

If you are displaying the variable on a form in the desktop side the actual display object has formatting capability that would need to be set. If you are storing value in a table then displaying your field properties in the table need to have the number of decimals specified.

Hope that helps instead of making the waters more muddy.

[Easy Rider]

Re: How do I use decimal numbers in XBasic?

To Clarify:

I'm adding up the values in the AfterValidate event of a Web Dialog, then displaying the result in a Label field on the dialog.

LabelField = str(Points)

[jkletrovets]

Re: How do I use decimal numbers in XBasic?

Check the help documentation of the STR() command. It takes a decimal place option.

So, you could use str(points,6,2) and this will give you 2 decimal points to the right.

[Easy Rider]

Re: How do I use decimal numbers in XBasic?

YES! That was it. It never occurred to me, that there would be such formatting options, in the XBasic str() function. I've not seen that, in other languages.

Many thanx,
EZR