[comp.sys.mac.hypercard] Number formating in Hypercard Stacks - fixed number of decimal places

mike@papert.sa.co.umist.ac.uk (Mike Reddy) (01/17/91)

One of my users has asked me this question regarding Hypercard v1.2.2 and
printing out numbers with fixed numbers of decimals.

Is it possible to format numbers with a specific number of decimal places,
such as in Excel (e.g. Dollars and cents : $5 = $5.00 etc). This might involve
adding zeros on to the end of numbers, unless there is a command in Hypertalk.

Are fixed decimals a feature of Hypercard v2 (when it appears...)?

Yours in advance,

Mike Reddy
-- 
Mike Reddy, inventor of the famous recursive footnote[1]
mike@umist.computation.suna / m.reddy@umist

[1] Famous Recursive Footnote (See Footnote [1]).