I have currency values within a table and for filtering I want to show only the numbers without currency symbols, but, I need the decimal point, here's what i'm using
$price_check = preg_replace('/\D/', '', str_replace(',','',(str_replace('£','',$item[item_price])));
How do I keep the decimal point? is first question
Also, I'm removing £ first (ascii for GBP) and then removing comma (if present) - is there a better way to do this?
Figured it out, the preg_replace anyway
$price_check = preg_replace('/(\.[0-9]+?)0*$/', '$1', str_replace(',','',(str_replace('£','',$item[item_price]))));
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I have an app which read an import in a TextField then process it using
let number = NSNumberFormatter().numberFromString(numberString)
if let number = number {
let floatValue = Float(number)
}
While I'm working with regional formats which use comma as decimal separator (like Italy or Germany) everything works (I can write 17,80 or 17.80 and they work both). When I work with regional formats which use dot as decimal separator (like USA), when I use dot as decimal separator (17.80) OK but if I use comma (17,80) app crash!
How can I solve it?
Would looking at the string and changing it to whichever format you know (e.g. making it always use a decimal separator) won't cause problems be a viable fix here?
I'm typing up a table with org mode, where the equal sign(=) if the first character in the cell and it want to start a formula. how do I get it to display the symbol without it being a formula, of a way to use formulas to display it. I get errors when I use single quotes, and I see the Unicode decimal value when using double quotes.
I have tried the following
='=+'
="=+"
they give
#ERROR
[61, 43]
Use an escaped entity, \equal{} and it should display as you wish. See the variable org-entities for others you can use.
I'm a bit late :D
There may be a better way, but you can try with :='(format "=+")
Source: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/19183/can-i-use-formula-to-manipulate-text-in-org-mode-table
When I ran into this problem just now, I found that I was able to get around it by replacing the equals sign with some other similar-looking character. Two which come to mind are ꞊ ‘U+A78A MODIFIER LETTER SHORT EQUALS SIGN’ and ⹀ ‘U+2E40 DOUBLE HYPHEN’.
I'm trying to do a simple mail merge in Word 2010 but when I insert an excel field that's supposed to represent a zip code from Connecticut (ie. 06880) I am having 2 problems:
the leading zero gets suppressed such as 06880 becoming 6880 instead. I know that I can at least toggle field code to make it so it works as {MERGEFIELD ZipCode # 00000} and that at least works.
but here's the real problem I can't seem to figure out:
A zip+4 field such as 06470-5530 gets treated like an arithmetic expression. 6470 - 5530 = 940 so by using above formula instead it becomes 00940 which is wrong.
Perhaps is there something in my excel spreadsheet or an option in Word that I need to set to make this properly work? Please advise, thanks.
See macropod's post in this conversation
As long as the ZIP codes are reaching Word (with or without "-" signs in the 5+4 format ZIPs, his field code should sort things out. However, if you are mixing text and numeric formats in your Excel column, there is a danger that the OLE DB provider or ODBC driver - if that is what you are using to get the data - will treat the column as numeric and return all the text values as 0.
Yes, Word sometimes treats text strings as numeric expressions as you have noticed. It will do that when you try to apply a numeric format, or when you try to do a calculation in an { = } field, when you sum table cell contents in an { = } field, or when Word decides to do a numeric comparison in (say) an { IF } field - in the latter case you can get Word to treat the expression as a string by surrounding the comparands by double-quotes.
in Excel, to force the string data type when entering data that looks like a number, a date, a fraction etc. but is not numeric (zip, phone number, etc.) simply type an apostrophe before the data.
=06470 will be interpreted as a the number 6470 but ='06470 will be the string "06470"
The simplest fix I've found is to save the Excel file as CSV. Word takes it all at face value then.
I've developed a workaround since crystal reports doesn't seem to have a substring function with the following formula:
right({_v_hardware.groupname},
truncate(instr(replace({_v_hardware.groupname},".",
","), ","))
What I'm trying to do is search for the period (".") in a string and replace it with a comma. Then find the comma position in the string and print all characters following after the comma. This is assuming the string will only have 1 period in the entire string.
Now when I attempt to do this, I get some weird characters which look like wingdings. Any ideas?
thanks in advance.
I don't know the entire issue that you are attempting to accomplish, but for this question alone, the step of replacing the period with a comma seems to be unnecessary. If you know that there is only one period in the string and you only want the characters right of the period then you should be able to do something like the following (this is #first_formula):
right({_v_hardware.groupname}, len({_v_hardware.groupname}) - instr({_v_hardware.groupname},"."))
If for some reason you want to show the comma then I'd do that in a separate formula. If you need the entire screen with the comma replaced then just do:
replace({_v_hardware.groupname},".",",")
And if you need the comma plus included in the string then it might just be easier to do something like:
"," + {#first_formula}
Hope this helps.
I'm trying to create a Crystal Reports formula field (to calculate the percentage change in a price) that will return "N/A" if a particular report field is null, but return a number to two decimal places using accounting format (negative numbers surrounded by parentheses) if it is not.
The closest I have been able to manage is this:
If IsNull({ValuationReport.YestPrice}) Then
'N/A'
Else
ToText({#Price}/{ValuationReport.YestPrice}*100-100, '###.00', 2)
However this represents negative numbers using a negative sign, not parentheses.
I tried format strings like '###.00;(###.00)' and '(###.00)' but these were rejected as invalid. How can I achieve my goal?
I think you are looking for ToText(CCur(#Price}/{ValuationReport.YestPrice}*100-100))
You can use CCur to convert numbers or string to Curency formats. CCur(number) or CCur(string)
I think this may be what you are looking for,
Replace (ToText(CCur({field})),"$" , "") that will give the parentheses for negative numbers
It is a little hacky, but I'm not sure CR is very kind in the ways of formatting
if(isnull({uspRptMonthlyGasRevenueByGas;1.YearTotal})) = true then
"nd"
else
totext({uspRptMonthlyGasRevenueByGas;1.YearTotal},'###.00')
The above logic should be what you are looking for.