How to extract the first decimal number from a timer?

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• Socks London, UK.Member Posts: 12,822

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  1.26
  
  1.26*10 = 12.6
  
  floor(12.6) = 12
  
  12/10 = 1.2 [save this into an attribute - let's call it "X"]
  
  floor(1.2) = 1 [save this into another attribute - let's call it "Y"]
  
  
  
  
  X-Y= the 'tenths place value'
  
  
• gyroscope I am here.Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 6,598

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  
  Hi @troynall
  
  And here it is, slightly differently (although very similar to @Socks version): a real attribute to hold your number called TempNum, and an integer attribute, let's call it FirstDec
  
  So for the following example, FirstDec is set to 0 and TempNum to 1.95 --or whatever the current number is.
  
  --------------
  
  Change Attribute FirstDec to TempNum
  Change Attribute TempNum to (TempNum-FirstDec)*10
  Change Attribute FirstDec to floor(TempNum)
  
  Display Text FirstDec
• Socks London, UK.Member Posts: 12,822

  February 2014

  @gyroscope
  
  Yep ! That's a lot neater ! >-
• tatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  @Socks
  @gyroscope
  
  mod(floor(number*10),10)
  
  Example:
  mod(floor(1.26*10),10) = 2
• Socks London, UK.Member Posts: 12,822

  February 2014

  @Socks
  @gyroscope
  
  mod(floor(number*10),10)
  
  Example:
  mod(floor(1.26*10),10) = 2

  Damn ! : ) That's tight !
• gyroscope I am here.Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 6,598

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  @Socks
  @gyroscope
  
  mod(floor(number*10),10)
  
  Example:
  mod(floor(1.26*10),10) = 2

  Damn ! : ) That's tight !

  Ha! Ditto, @Socks; good one, @tatiang; you get the biscuit! :-) B-)
• troynall Member Posts: 15

  February 2014

  @socks - yes it is "tighter", but yours shows more manual mechanics on "how to". And i don't mind doing it your way. I was hung up on the leading digit. But your way was the approx version I wrote in pseudo code. Just trying to wrap my head around all these functions. In a few other languages, All I would do is save the time as a string and then pick my string apart until I get my results.
  
  Thanks guys.
• tatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949

  February 2014

  The current nightly build available to Pro members contains string manipulation functions that I believe would allow you to do that, though I haven't tried yet.
  
  Eventually, those features will make their way into the stable build available to everyone.