Re: casting types

[Brian Drummond <brian3@shapes.demon.co.uk>]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:56:59 -0700, Stribor40 wrote:

> ok so i tried truncation attribute and that works just great. Now I want
> to output this float point to the screen and this is the way i did
> it....myFunction is myFunction that returns float....
> 
> Put(Item=>myFunction,Exp=>0,Aft=>5);
> 
> which gives me for example something like this... 0.42997 where without
> using this function i would get for example  3.23684E-01.....
> 
> Is there any other way to do this?

At this point it's not clear what "do this" means or why the second 
example is a scientific notation representation of a completely different 
number.

Put together the smallest complete compilable example of the problem you 
see, and it will help the discussion along wonderfully.

- Brian