Re: Different behavior of Str(Double)? / Re: Floating point overflow

[Michael Diehr <md03@xochi.com>]

On Sep 29, 2008, at 7:27 AM, Joe Strout wrote:

> > yes: because with 15 significant digits, the double gets  
> > represented more accurate in a string? (-> feature)
> That's what you want, you could use the Variant->String conversion,  
> or use Format with a spec like "-0.#".  But as you point out, if you  
> want a more "natural" representation with a reasonable number of  
> significant digits, it's harder to get that yourself.

Word of warning :   "-0.#" as a format spec gives different results  
than Str(), e.g.
  str(1.0) --> "1"
  format(1.0, "-0.#") --> "1."
note the trailing period.  This feature bit me once.  :)




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