Thread: displaying float digits

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    displaying float digits

    Hey there, i'm curious on how to display the first and rightmost digit of the integral portion of a floating point integer. I'm not quite sure how to do this.

    whould I create a two variables like so:

    float floatintPointInt;
    float result;

    ....

    result = floatingPointInt % floatingPointInt / 10;

    ....

    Thanks

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    Code:
    int result = (int)floatingPointInt % 10;
    Last edited by Wledge; 10-06-2003 at 12:13 PM.

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    Thanks a lot man.

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    Hi, i'm sorry.. I'm not quite sure what is wrong with my code.
    It's supposed to print the first and the second rightmost digit of the integral portion of the float.

    Code:
    int main()
    {
    	float decimal = 0.0;
    	int result = (int)decimal % 10;
    
    	printf("Floating point Int: ");
    	scanf("%f", result);
       
    
    	printf("\n\n%f", result);
    
    	return 0;
    }


    I'm not sure if i should assign the "decimal" to 0.0.. when i don't the compiler give an error.

    thank you.

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    >I'm not sure if i should assign the "decimal" to 0.0.. when i don't the compiler give an error.
    An error? Or a warning that you are using the value of 'decimal' before it has been initialized?

    >scanf("%f", result);
    Here scanf expects a pointer to a float -- give it one.
    Code:
    scanf("%f", &decimal);
    Convert the float 'decimal' to the int 'result' after you've gotten 'decimal'.

    >It's supposed to print the first and the second rightmost digit of the integral portion of the float.
    You may want to use % 100.

    >printf("\n\n%f", result);
    Use %d with an int.
    Code:
    printf("\n%d\n", result);
    Last edited by Dave_Sinkula; 10-09-2003 at 09:45 PM.
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    Oh geeeezzz.. man.. thank you so much.

    I can't believe i missed that scanf("%d", &result);........... bahhh

    Thank you

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