On 5/2/2013 4:08 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
Yeah, I suppose it might say just plain In = 25.7KB, but, as we say, "the program doesn't work that way." (Also, due to other constraints it MUST appear in a "string" format message, not in tabular form like most mainframe reports.)
This reminds me of G format in ForTran, although that accepts only reals. But I don't recall if they had a special name for it.
And yes, I am doing it "with my own code" -- there is no built-in support in the language I am using (C++).
It may be easier to write the code than to arrive at a name for it <g>. And you never mentioned whether you want truncation, rounding, banker's rounding, or ?
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