Re: [Jprogramming] Displaying stock market data

I'm puzzled.  When you look at https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/quoteco#dyadic , the second example uses a complex x to control formatting.  If you read on in the detail, you see complex x used repeatedly. Do this: go back to that page and read carefully, especially after "More Info

Re: [Jprogramming] Displaying stock market data

Also, use of complex x was mentioned a bit further down in the link that Henry supplied - sections 2 3 and 4 https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/quoteco#Numeric_y Cheers, bob > On Sep 11, 2019, at 9:15 PM, Roger Hui wrote: > > http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d602.htm >

Re: [Jprogramming] Displaying stock market data

http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d602.htm , under the ": entry of the dictionary. It's been there since 2005. On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 9:04 PM HH PackRat wrote: > On 9/11/19, Henry Rich wrote: > > The definitive documentation of J i

Re: [Jprogramming] Displaying stock market data

On 9/11/19, Henry Rich wrote: > The definitive documentation of J is NuVoc > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc > ": is described in https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/quoteco#dyadic and Chris Burke said essentially the same thing. I'm very familiar with the ": primitive. It was the

Re: [Jprogramming] Displaying stock market data

> Where is the 0j4 ": (and all of its variations) located in the J documentation? In Jqt, enter ": and with the cursor on or next to it, press Ctrl+F1 for the Vocabulary or Ctrl+Shift+F1 for NuVoc. On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 8:00 PM HH PackRat wrote: > On 9/11/19, Ric Sherlock wrote: > > Here are

Re: [Jprogramming] Displaying stock market data

The definitive documentation of J is NuVoc https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc ": is described in https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/quoteco#dyadic Henry Rich On 9/11/2019 11:00 PM, HH PackRat wrote: On 9/11/19, Ric Sherlock wrote: Here are a couple of options 0j4 ": 5.7544987

Re: [Jprogramming] Displaying stock market data

On 9/11/19, Ric Sherlock wrote: > Here are a couple of options >0j4 ": 5.75449876 654356.766578 > 5.7545 654356.7666 Thank you--that worked just the way I wanted. Thanks again to both you and Mike! Where is the 0j4 ": (and all of its variations) located in the J documentation? I want to ma

Re: [Jprogramming] Displaying stock market data

Is this the sort of thing you need? 11.3^i.5. NB. plain output with default precision 1 11.3 127.69 1442.9 16304.7 10j2": 11.3^i.5. NB. Vector with 2dp 1.00 11.30127.69 1442.90 16304.74 10j2": ,.11.3^i.5. NB. Column vector with 2dp 1.00 11.30 127.69 1

Re: [Jprogramming] Displaying stock market data

Here are a couple of options 0j4 ": 5.75449876 654356.766578 5.7545 654356.7666 '0.4' 8!:0] 5.75449876 654356.766578 ┌──┬┐ │ 5.7545│654356.7666│ └──┴┘ On Wed, 11 Sep 2019, 19:45 HH PackRat, wrote: > Although I can find general print precision in the J documentat

[Jprogramming] Displaying stock market data

Although I can find general print precision in the J documentation, I can't seem to find how to display 2 decimal digits, 3 decimal digits, or 4 decimal digits, for example. In other words, I don't really care how many digits precede the decimal point, but I need to have a fixed number of digits f