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Re: FORMAT FLOATS TO STRINGS WITH 3 DIGITS ONLY [message #44223 is a reply to message #44193]

Thu, 26 May 2005 07:05

Vince Hradil
Messages: 574
Registered: December 1999

Senior Member

Well... the original poster did not say that he/she wanted only the
first 3 most significant digits, just the first 3 digits... so I
thought strmid() was the simplest answer:

first3 = strmid(string(var),0,3)

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		FORMAT FLOATS TO STRINGS WITH 3 DIGITS ONLY By: Giorgos on Sun, 22 May 2005 18:01
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		Re: FORMAT FLOATS TO STRINGS WITH 3 DIGITS ONLY By: Benjamin Hornberger on Wed, 25 May 2005 10:44

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