converting .123456 to 123456

ultima

converting say .123456 to 123456

Hi guys, does anyone have a solution for this? (if you don't know how many digits there are)

I tried to use a loop until function and multiply the number by 10 and checking if number - padint(number) is = 0

this solution gave me a weird number like 1234559999998

AlkaPP

@ultima have you seen this thread?

https://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/60487/get-count-of-digits-in-a-number-how-to

I think it’s easier to count how many digits your number has first then use rule to x10, 100, 1000 etc regarding the digit count.

ultima

yes this only works for integers not decimals

tatiang

Hmm, I thought you could do it with textReplace( ) or textSubStr( ) but it appears not to work, at least not with decimals.

So mathematically:

Change Attribute game.number to game.number*pow(10,textLength(game.number)-2)

By way of explanation, we're taking the length of the number you need -- which GameSalad reports back as two longer than it needs to be since it has a leading zero and decimal point -- and using it as a power of ten to multiply by the original number.

So for example, 0.123456 has a length of 8 so we multiply 0.123456 by 10^6 which gives us 123456.

ultima

this worked beautifully thank you so much.

RThurman

@tatiang -- That is a really nice solution!