Re: double to string????

[Kirk Gray <develop@kirkgray.com>]

On Jun 30, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Markus Winter wrote:

> > 16 or 17 decimal places of accuracy.
> My point exactly - it is not just the decimal points which go  
> missing, it is
> the numbers before the decimal point too!
Using your:
v = 12345678901234567890.1234567890

and Joe's:
EF1.text = Format(v, "-#.#")

I get:
12345678901234567168.

Which is to be expected.

Notice the first 17 digits are accurate to the assignment statement.

After that, you get garbage.

It's working exactly as advertised.


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Kirk Gray
REALbasic Professional 2008r2
MacBook Core 2 Duo, OS X 10.5.3
Power Mac dual G4, OS X 10.4.11


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