Conversion Help Needed

[P-Nut311]

I want a user to enter either a decimal or percentage, but the program must convert the percentages into decimals. How do I go about doing this? Whenever I attempt this, my program converts all numbers inputted. Can someone help me??

Thanks

[wtd]

Show us the code you have.

[P-Nut311]

Here's what I have so far...

code:

%Investment program var investment, interest : real var term : int var plan : string locate (12, 29) put "Cash Investment Program" delay (5000) cls put "Please enter your cash investment: $" .. get investment cls put "Please enter your interest rate: %" .. get interest if interest >= 0 then     interest := interest / 100 elsif interest >= 0.00 then     cls end if cls

I know that code under "get interest" is wrong. How do I make it so that when the user inputs a decimal, the program will leave the number alone, but when the user inputs a percentage, the program will convert it to a decimal?

Thanks

[Viper]

ok wut exactly is this program supposed 2 do

[Viper]

try that

var p:real
var n:real
var i:real
var A:real

put "how much money is in your bank?"..
get p
put "how many mounths will it be in there for?"..
get n
put "what is the intrest you are getting from the bank?"..
get i
A:= p *(1+i/12)**n
put " you Have",p,"$ in the bank,"
put "it will be in ther for",n,"mounths, at a ",i,"% intrest rate"
put "you should have" ,A, " when you take it out"

[P-Nut311]

The program is supposed to take the interest and if the user inputs a percentage, then the program must convert it into a decimal. If the user inputs a decimal, then the program should keep the decimal as it is.

[wtd]

P-Nut311 wrote:

Here's what I have so far...

code:

%Investment program var investment, interest : real var term : int var plan : string locate (12, 29) put "Cash Investment Program" delay (5000) cls put "Please enter your cash investment: $" .. get investment cls put "Please enter your interest rate: %" .. get interest if interest >= 0 then     interest := interest / 100 elsif interest >= 0.00 then     cls end if cls

I know that code under "get interest" is wrong. How do I make it so that when the user inputs a decimal, the program will leave the number alone, but when the user inputs a percentage, the program will convert it to a decimal?

Thanks

By declaring "interest" as "real", you ensure that it will always be a decimal number. There's no need for conversion.

[con.focus]

Viper wrote:

try that

var p:real
var n:real
var i:real
var A:real

put "how much money is in your bank?"..
get p
put "how many mounths will it be in there for?"..
get n
put "what is the intrest you are getting from the bank?"..
get i
A:= p *(1+i/12)**n
put " you Have",p,"$ in the bank,"
put "it will be in ther for",n,"mounths, at a ",i,"% intrest rate"
put "you should have" ,A, " when you take it out"

you should really give name to your variables espially in long code (make it ezer for ppl to read n figure out wut they mean or do

[wtd]

con.focus wrote:

Viper wrote:

try that

var p:real
var n:real
var i:real
var A:real

put "how much money is in your bank?"..
get p
put "how many mounths will it be in there for?"..
get n
put "what is the intrest you are getting from the bank?"..
get i
A:= p *(1+i/12)**n
put " you Have",p,"$ in the bank,"
put "it will be in ther for",n,"mounths, at a ",i,"% intrest rate"
put "you should have" ,A, " when you take it out"

you should really give meaningful name to your variables espially in long code (make it ezer for ppl to read n figure out wut they mean or do

Better.