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Text from a numeric value

Aussie John — Wed, 24 May 2023 08:38:31 GMT

I want to print a report of a library part ( actually for a door schedule).
I need to insert a dimension value into a text string. Im not sure if this is possible. Any ideas?

Re: Text from a numeric value

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 05:54:39 GMT

I think you want translate a variable from Numeric type to String type. Isn't it?

You can do it with STR() function, see more info in manual.

Re: Text from a numeric value

Aussie John — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 06:48:58 GMT

it must be Friday as i cant see any STR functions that do that

Re: Text from a numeric value

David Larrew — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:10:56 GMT

The STR() function will convert a numeric value into a formatted text "string". You will need to decide what kind of formatting you want to have expressed and assign it to the raw value.

This example takes the Object's raw width, "A", and raw height, "B", and formats the measured value into text strings defined as "String_W" and "String_H" formatted into feet and fractional inches with a precision of 1/16":
String_W=str("%0.16ffi", A)
String_H=str("%0.16ffi", B)

The GDL Manual section of the Help file can explain the formatting in depth.

Re: Text from a numeric value

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:02:06 GMT

Aussie John,

You puzzled me. You said you want to insert a dimension value into a string, did you?
Well, we know the type of a dimension value is numeric and all string function can not deal with numeric type value. So, I think you have to convert the value into a string type first, then you can do what you want.

Re: Text from a numeric value

Aussie John — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 00:21:16 GMT

i have two numerical values say A & B. I want a text string to say "AxBmm". I think David suggestion will work. (I was too tired on friday to make any sense of the manual at that point!!)

Re: Text from a numeric value

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 01:38:41 GMT

Try

text_dim = str(a*1000,3,0) + 'x' + str(b*1000,3,0) + 'mm'

if a = 500 and b = 380 you will get

500x380mm

The *1000 is important or you will be 3 decimal places out.

if you want spaces put then in ' x ' and ' mm'

I do this all the time. I have a little subroutine that draws a line with ticks to match my normal dims.