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[xX_MayDay_Xx]

yes and hello everyone...i am new to progamming and have come across something that bothers the hell out of me.

im trying to make a game were the user input's a time, in hours....(example-38.50=38 hours, and 30 mins)
but i cant get the code right to change the 38.50 into the time....i know the hours are given, and i don't really like math all that much so any help would be greatly aprrciated.

[Andy]

sounds pretty much do-able to me.. post up the code you so far, and I'll see if i could be of any help

[MysticVegeta]

1) Convert double into string
2) Check if the index of "." in the string >= 0, if it is split it else let the string stay the same.
3) Convert the first and second element of the splitArray into ints, multiply the second one by 60.

Note: Step 3 is if String.indexOf(".") >= 0;
otherwise just convert the string into int

[wtd]

Convert the string to a float, then grab the decimal part and multiply by 60.

[xX_MayDay_Xx]

public class Time
{
public static void main (String[]args)
{
double num, hours, min, sec;
System.out.println("Please enter a length of time");
System.out.println("Example '36.50= 36hours and 30minutes'");
num=In.getDouble();
}
}


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This is all i have, so far. Any help with it would be geatly apreciated....also, i have to write a progam that would take a letter, and then but the postion of the alphabit. (Example, A=1. B=2)

[Andy]

well, all you have there is inputting the number, why dont you read what the nice people up there posted, and try to play around with it a bit before asking for help?

[xX_MayDay_Xx]

arrg....that envoles math.....i hate math,...with a passion...(Yes i know the irony, a computer coder who hates math)

and i have tried other things, but for some reason i cant get them to work properlly...i don't have them any more becuase i recently formatted my computer.

[[Gandalf]]

You don't know how to multiply?... wtd's solution shouldn't be a problem at all.

[Andy]

xX_MayDay_Xx wrote:

arrg....that envoles math.....i hate math,...with a passion...(Yes i know the irony, a computer coder who hates math)

and i have tried other things, but for some reason i cant get them to work properlly...i don't have them any more becuase i recently formatted my computer.

so basicly, let me get this straight... you're too lazy to do your own homework, fine, you ask for help, then you're too lazy to read the help people give you and wants one of us to do it for you? wth do you think u are

[MysticVegeta]

Wth? Converting decimal into minutes isnt that hard..

[Andy]

its not hard.. he's just too lazy to think

[xX_MayDay_Xx]

yes....i am lazy, and i like i said....i am very new to JAVA programming, turing i have no problem with....i don't even know what a float is.....don't you see my rank on this fourm...i belive it states "newbie" , so please stop giving me a hard time....i know im lazy, i know im a noob, but i learn by seeing, not figuring it all out by myself. and besides im a hardware guy....i don't like dealing with software.............

[rizzix]

That IS not his point! LOOK at the help your received! Don't expect us to give you the answer.

[Andy]

what makes you think that we're here to do your homework for you? the point of the forum is to provide people help with specific programming roadblocks, and help those who are helping you to get better through explaining. I dont see how doing your homework serves either purpose.

But, since you're an hardware guy, i guess we could get this arranged... tell me the number of different packets in the ATI's R600 PM4 stream, and i'll do this for you.

[Andy]

But, just so i dont sound like a total jerk.. a float is basicly a real number in turing, its not really, but since ur a hardware guy, you should know what flops is.

oh, and if you're master turing, post your turing solution to this problem, and we could help you translate that into java.