Baseball Percentages -- No Zero

[jsta43catrocks]

My program is dividing the number of hits by the number of "at bats," and I'm multiplying it by 1.0 so that it ends up as a double.

But it always gives me the first "zero" (as in "0.427"), whereas a baseball percentages doesn't include that first digit.

Casting it as a float gives me the same result.

I'm sure this is easy, but how do I get rid of that first zero? (I'm already "setprecision"-ing it to (3) to get the right percentage.)

[Atli]

Well... whether basball statistics show it or not, the zero is still there. Any numeric type in any programming language is aware of this fact and no baseball fan will ever convince them otherwise.

The question is, what are you using these numbers for?
If you are storing them your gona want to keep them as doubles or floats so you can use them as numbers later on.
If you are just displaying them, however, you could convert them into strings and simply remove the first char and you'd be wrid of that zero.

[jsta43catrocks]

I'm calculating them, adjusting them after I get new information, and then displaying them after that.

If I convert it to "string," how would I "remove the first character?" Would it be something like:

 cout << string[2] << string[3] << string[4]; 

thereby displaying only the appropriate (last three) digits?
Am I misunderstanding something?

Well... whether basball statistics show it or not, the zero is still there. Any numeric type in any programming language is aware of this fact and no baseball fan will ever convince them otherwise.

The question is, what are you using these numbers for?
If you are storing them your gona want to keep them as doubles or floats so you can use them as numbers later on.
If you are just displaying them, however, you could convert them into strings and simply remove the first char and you'd be wrid of that zero.

[Savage]

I'm calculating them, adjusting them after I get new information, and then displaying them after that.

If I convert it to "string," how would I "remove the first character?" Would it be something like:

 cout << string[2] << string[3] << string[4]; 

thereby displaying only the appropriate (last three) digits?
Am I misunderstanding something?

Use substring.

If u don't know how to use it check this

Savage

[jsta43catrocks]

Thanks. I'll try that.

Use substring.

If u don't know how to use it check this

Savage