[M3devel] Percent to REAL?

Martin Bishop martinbishop at bellsouth.net
Fri Jan 16 03:37:28 CET 2009


Martin Bishop wrote:
> I'm feeling silly, but I need to convert a percentage (stored as an
> INTEGER) into a REAL, so I tried FLOAT(num) / 100.0 but that doesn't
> work.  I tried using FLOAT(num DIV 100) but that doesn't work either.  I
> also tried FLOAT(num MOD 100) just to try everything, and that didn't
> work either.
> 
> How can I convert a percentage into a REAL? For example, 70% -> 0.70
> 

Disregard that, I knew I was feeling silly, FLOAT(num) / 100.0 DOES work.



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