From: "Christoph Karl Walter Grein" <AdaMagica@web.de>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: altering number of significant figures
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:52:29 +0200
Date: 2004-09-28T08:52:29+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.120.1096354364.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
> myfloat : float := 1234.5678;
> screen_display("value = " & float'image(myfloat));
> However I do not know how to only print only the first 2 (for example)
> decimal places of myfloat.
>
> The above will print "value = 1234.5678". However I want "value = 1234.56".
Look at RM A.10.1 (67) procedure Put to a String. There you can choose the format (digits before and after the dot, exponential digits). This rounds (1234.57).
If you really want 1234.56, you have to use the 'Floor attribute (RM K(74)).
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2004-09-28 6:52 Christoph Karl Walter Grein [this message]
2004-09-28 10:26 ` altering number of significant figures David Peterson
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2004-09-28 5:59 David Peterson
2004-09-28 6:41 ` tmoran
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2004-09-28 17:58 ` Jeffrey Carter
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