Display text: Percentages?

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• BBEnk Member Posts: 1,764

  October 2014

  you could do display test like so game.value.."%"
• mhedges Raised on VCS Member Posts: 634

  October 2014

  YEs, @BBEnk, that would be the concatenate option. But how can I format a real variable to two decimal places? Thanks!
• pHghost London, UKMember Posts: 2,342

  October 2014

  @mhedges said:
  But how can I format a real variable to two decimal places? Thanks!

  Using the Precision Function:

  prec(your.number,2)

  You're welcome!
• mhedges Raised on VCS Member Posts: 634

  October 2014

  Thanks, @pHghost ! So close, yet still a bit to go. I was trying out padInt and padReal when I saw your response.

  Thanks to both, regards.
• Socks London, UK.Member Posts: 12,822

  October 2014 edited October 2014

  @pHghost said:
  Using the Precision Function: prec(your.number,2)

  I'm pretty sure the precision function is (like the modulus '%' function) no longer recommended by GameSalad, I guess its days are numbered and will eventually get dropped as the code base is evolved . . . . the recommendation to ensure future compatibility is to use 'round' and 'roundTo' instead . . . so basically roundTo(your.number,2).

  Also I've heard it said that the precision function needs to convert the numbers to text before doing its magic and then convert the results back to a number, which is meant to be a slower less efficient method than staying in the world of numbers (which 'round' does).
• pHghost London, UKMember Posts: 2,342

  October 2014

  @Socks -- good to know! Had no idea these functions might get dropped by GS soon.