I am trying to apply the following easy-to-state formatting rule to
display a number:
- If the number is positive or negative, display it in the 'default'
way
- If the number is zero, the output should be an empty string
Now I know this is trivial to code, but the elegant solution would be
passing a custom format string to ToString(). The problem is, I can't
make one that works: There doesn't seem to be a way to combine the
'pre-defined' numeric formats with the user-defined format idea of
semi-colon-delimited differing formats for positive;negati ve;zero
inputs.
I tried "#########.#### ##;-######.#####;" which *almost* works, except
that for whole-number inputs it still displays a decimal point. There
doesn't seem to be a 'conditional decimal point' formatting character
in the same way that # is a 'conditional digit' formatting character.
As I said, this isn't desperately important, but I would be interested
to learn if I am missing something.
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Larry Lard
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Larry,
You mean that you make work from
\\\
a = ""
if b <> 0 then a = b.tostring
///
I never take the time to think about those things to much
I check the characters I have to type for that mostly to see what I take.
:-)
Cor
Cor Ligthert wrote: Larry,
You mean that you make work from \\\ a = "" if b <> 0 then a = b.tostring ///
That doesn't insert the thousand seperators he wants AFAIK
--
Rinze van Huizen
C-Services Holland b.v.
Sorry,
Has not a culture
:-)
Cor
Cor Ligthert wrote: Larry,
You mean that you make work from \\\ a = "" if b <> 0 then a = b.tostring ///
I never take the time to think about those things to much
I do :) Elegance above all else!
--
Larry Lard
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Cor Ligthert wrote: Sorry,
Has not a culture
:-)
Cor
Luckily I'm not from Friesland, only my name is :P
Anyhow, I haven't played around with the culture settings that's why I
added the AFAIK (As Far As I Know). I guess I'll have to look into that.
--
Rinze van Huizen
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