Originally posted by: ouaigooo

Hi

When using writeln(n), with n being a big integer, I got sometimes things like 5.08525e+08

Is it possible to force to write the whole number and not this notation ?

With 12.6.3 it seems that it also often prints a .0 at the end of integers.

Subsidiary question: is there any nice fct for displaying floats ? like printf('%.2f')

Even writeln(round()) sometimes screw up and displays with many decimals (e.g. .9999999999) ...

Thanks in advance for your help

Hi,

float n=5.08525e+08;
 
  int n2=ftoi(n);
 
  execute
  {
  writeln(n2);  
  }

gives

508525000

Originally posted by: ouaigooo

Thanks Alex.

Actually, it looks like it is a bug of a special hotfix IBM had just released for us.

IBM support is on it now.

Kind regards

Originally posted by: ouaigooo

Any idea about the other question ?

Subsidiary question: is there any nice fct for displaying floats ? like printf('%.2f')

Hi,

is there a nice way ? Well ...

There is a way:

float z=2.5764e7;
 
 
 execute
 {
 var l=Math.log(z)/Math.log(10);
 var z2=Math.round(z/Math.pow(10,Math.round(l)-2)); ///Math.pow(10,Math.round(l)+2);
 var z3=z2/Math.pow(10,2);
 
  write(z3);
 }

gives

2.58

regards

Originally posted by: ouaigooo

Thanks, but I would rather use var z2=Math.round(z*Math.pow(10,2));

Anyway:

Your example does not print the trailing zeros in digits.

For instance, 0.997467 prints 1 and not 1.00

So it gets complicated and probably slow if we have to check the number of characters in the string and add trailing zeros or leading spaces if necessary.

It's a pitty there is no fast, embedded function to perform this stuff.

I guess I'm the only one using OPL Script for printing numbers ...

Regards

Hi,

you may try some string operations like the one in documentation for dates:

execute {

function converter(dateIn)

{ dateTime = dateIn.split(" ");

date = dateTime[0];

time = dateTime[1];

dateSplit = date.split("-");

dateReverse = dateSplit.reverse();

dateNew = dateReverse.join("/") + " " + time;

return Date.parse(dateNew);

}

var d1 = converter("2011-07-06 07:00:00.0");

writeln(d1);

}

you could use an external java call or log a request for enhancement http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21659629

regards