How to convert numeric value to percentage?

[ereeksd]

Can you please help me on what command is needed to convert a numeric value to percentage? thank you!

 

[Olaf Doschke]

A percentage is a numeric value. It's just referencing towards some other value being 100%, so it depends what kind of value you have. The "conversion" could simply be multiplying by 100, if you have a relative quantity between 0 and 1, but it might be totally different, if you have an absolute value you'd first need to scale by whatever 100% is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage

Bye, Olaf.

 

[ereeksd]

@OLAFDOSCHKE
Thanks for the info, one more question, can i use the STR(command) to convert automatically to a percentage?

 

[Mike Lewis]

Short answer: Multiply by 100.

So, if your number is 0.5, the percentage would be 50.

Mike



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[Olaf Doschke]

No, STR() converts numeric to string, this has nothing to do with percentage.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Mike Lewis]

No, the STR() command (actually, it's a function, not a command) converts a numeric value to a string. It's got nothing to do with percentages.

Mike

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[ereeksd]

@Mike
Thanks I got it already. Thanks for the help anyway

@olaf
I got it. thanks for the help.

 

[Mike Lewis]

I'm not intentionally trying to echo Olaf. It's just that he seems to be 0.5 seconds ahead of me.

Mike

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[ereeksd]

@mike

I know. Just microseconds late

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Good you figured it out. You just keep me wondering what you wanted. Just printing a % sign after the percentage value? Did you think about a percentage variable type, which would print a % sign similar to the currency type printing a currency symbol?

Such a thing does not exist.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[ereeksd]

Yes, i thought there was a command that was able to convert a whole number into a percent when it was commanded to be run. Thanks anyway!

 

[Olaf Doschke]

I don't know any programming language having a special command for that. Also, by your specification of convertig a whole number to percent, as an example: What would 64789226 be, converted to a percentage?

Bye, Olaf.

 

[JRB-Bldr]

I thought there was a command that was able to convert a whole number into a percent when it was commanded to be run.

You might want to spend some time studying the various VFP Commands and Functions that are available to use.

The VFP Help 'system' has a complete list of Commands and Functions.

Good Luck,
JRB-Bldr

 

[TamarGranor]

Check out the TRANSFORM() function. It's handy for reformatting values to meet various criteria.

Tamar