Displaying large numbers in v. foxpro

[EzLogic]

vfp 7.0 sp1
win xp pro

i have a function that converts from hex to dec.

if i put it in the windows calculator, i get the following:

my hex number: 51011623232
windows calc : 5566569263666
vfp solution : 5.566E+12 <- i don't want scientific notation.

if the number happened to be smaller, then i get the right solution..

any suggestions?

i tried using the str() but, no luck.


Ali Koumaiha
Wireless Toyz
Farmington Hills, Michigan

 

[Stella740pl]

Would this be of any help? thread184-1043838
As for displaying only, I guess it depends on the space available. Where are you displaying it?

 

[EzLogic]

Thanks for the reply, i don't think that helped me...

i am just doing it in the vfp command window..

?h2d('somenumber') and i get the result in scientific notation.

however if the number is smaller, i don't get the scientific notation.



Ali Koumaiha
Wireless Toyz
Farmington Hills, Michigan

 

[EzLogic]

I used Transform() instead of str() and i got it to work..

thanks


Ali Koumaiha
Wireless Toyz
Farmington Hills, Michigan

 

[Stella740pl]

TRANSFORM() is good, but even if you use STR() with the right number of symbols specified (say, STR(MyNumber,16), not just the default 10), it will work, too.

 

[tvign]

Stella740pl is right...

However, str(number,16) will not display decimals if there are any. It displays integers only (positive and negative whole numbers)

?str(-12345678.8765,16) displays -12345679

It rounds also, and curiously. It rounds the absolute value!

Tony

 

[DSummZZZ]

It displays integers only

Yes it does, if you leave out the decimals parameter:
?str(-12345678.8765,16, 5)

-Dave Summers-

Even more Fox stuff at:

http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm

 

[dbMark]

Just make sure your whole decimal number is no larger or smaller than absolute 6,755,399,441,055,748. That's the maximum VFP 9 can handle with STR(). If you need decimals, the number must be much smaller, somewhere about 15 digits maximum, excluding commas and decimal points. Somewhere in the 16 digits range precision gets lost. As I recall precision is desplayed out to about 15 digits and comparisons go out to about 18 digits, mainly so we don't see numbers that look identical but compare as different.