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Re: Controlling number of decimal places [message #40202]

Tue, 27 July 2004 20:28

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Edwin writes:

> Say I have a DOUBLE variable that holds 200.23234 for example. I want
> to output this number to a text file as a number rounded to two
> decimal places. In other words, I want to output to a text file
> "200.23".
>
> How do I do this? I've looked into the ROUND function but only rounds
> to the nearest integer.

Something like this should work:

PrintF, lun, data, Format='(F8.2)'

Cheers,

David

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