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[JJM]

Hi,

Could you help me?
If would like to write in a textbox for example 250*1.09 and get the result in msgbox(Format(textbox1.text,"n2")).
Every time i get an error saying to me that is not a good format.

In Basic4PPC i don't find function as "Val" or string to number as in VB6.

:sign0085:

Thank you

JJ M

 

[specci48]

Hi JJM,

I think what you are trying to do doesn't work at all.

As the name says, with a textbox you can enter a text as a string. So an input of "250*1.09" returns the string "250*1.09" for TextBox1.Text.
As the input for the format instruction has to be a number, and the string "250*1.90" is not a number (even the IsNumber function will return false) you will get a format exception.

I don't know why the format instruction works fine with an input like "2*3" because this string is not a number, too.

If you want to evaluate mathematical expressions (convert string input into a number result) you should have a look at this post from Erel: http://www.b4x.com/forum/showthread.php?t=394


specci48

 

[JJM]

Hi Specci48,

Thank you for the link.
I know that is not the good way i would like to use but try
that:
Textbox1.text="250"*"2"
Msgbox(Textbox1.text)
the result is 500 !!!...

Is it a bug of Basic4PPC?

Thanks again and best regards

JJ M

 

[Erel]

Basic4ppc implicty converts strings to numbers as needed.
It will not convert expressions to formulas.
You should follow the link if you wish to convert expressions (not single numbers) to numbers.