Am Samstag, den 16.02.2019, 17:55 +0100 schrieb f.zelders--- via
Amforth-devel:
> Hello forth-professionals and fellow forth enthousiasts.
>
> I created a word that converts a positive double-precision number to
> an 8 character string like this:
>
> : dpNumberToString ( d -- address count )
> <# # # # # # # # # #> ;
> This works fine for positive numbers.
> However I want to convert negative double-precision numbers too.
Here's the code for d.r
: d.r ( d n -- )
>r swap over dabs <# #s rot sign #> r> over - spaces type
the essential part is that the "swap over dabs" creates a signed
single cell number (value is not relevant) with the same sign as
the double cell number and the double number is converted to a
positive number (dabs). Inside the <# #> block, sign uses the
signed number (again, numeric value irrelevant) to put the
- (or nothing) in the picture numeric buffer (pic).
Matthias
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