[ANSWERED] number to text actor

[A Former User]

thank you very much, also for fixing the control panel update so fast.

the westfernsehen team, leipzig.

[deflost]

hello, how is it possible to say the formatter to give only two places after the decimal point to the output?

thx.

[jfg]

@deflost

if you click on the help button in the Text formatter actor you will find this:

Px:n.m Output the number, with a maximum of n digits to the left of the decimal point and m digits to the right. If the input parameter is                      text, ignore n.m and just output the text.

Px:Zn.m Same as above, but add leading zeros to ensure a total of n digits appear to the left of the decimal point.

Best regards, 

Jean-François 

[Armando]

@jfg I know this is the right choice, but, thinking of students, people who aren't good in programming, wouldn'it be easier if we had (and we had it in the past) a "number to character" actor ? We would still use the text formatter for more complex operations like creating strings and prepend or append stuff, but I wonder if it wouldn't be easier and faster for this audience. Plus, more symmetrical, because we have a "character to number" actor. I would expect a "number to character" too. Much more intuitive for the beginners. It took a while for me too to understand the power of the text formatter...

[fubbi]

I agree @armando, I often I instinctively look for that actor, thinking it has to be here somewhere because the other direction exists. Then I remember and grab a text formatter.

[Armando]

@fubbi same here

[jfg]

@armando said:

Plus, more symmetrical, because we have a "character to number" actor.

 

Plus, more symmetrical, because we have a "character to number" actor.

 The "character to number"  converts the first character of the input text to its decimal equivalent, e.g. "Character" > C=67 or 225 > 50 the value for 2.

To convert a value to a text you can also use this actor from Juriaan on the add-ons page:

LANGUAGE BASED – NUMBER TO TEXT FORMATTER

it give you also the possibility to set the numbers of decimals.

You can also use a macro or a user actor with only an input and an output for which you change the properties.

Best regards, 

Jean-François

[Armando]

Brilliant and elegant solution, JF (as always). Sorry I didn't see the "Value to text actor too who does the job perfecty. Forget I said something 

[Woland]

@armando

I just have simple User Actors for this:

js-text-to-number.iua3

js-number-to-text.iua3

[Armando]

@woland Creative as always. Thanks