How do you "cut off" a decimal?

[Silent Avenger]

Okay I making a program where I input and output prices and I would like to know how to make the decimal go to only 2 places. I've already tried using the variable as a currency type but it still doesn't work.

[[Gandalf]]

You'll want to look into either rounding, or truncating.

[wtd]

Understand why many languages call functions that do just this kind of thing "ceil" and "floor".

[Monstrosity_]

Silent Avenger wrote:

Okay I making a program where I input and output prices and I would like to know how to make the decimal go to only 2 places. I've already tried using the variable as a currency type but it still doesn't work.

The Currency just provides a different method of storage for your numbers, since you wouldn't use floating-point numbers things such as currency.
As for the decimal places, look into the FormatCurrency() function.

[cool dude]

you don't need currency. to round of to 2 decimal places use the format command and inside the brackets the name of the variable you want to round to 2 decimal places and "0.00"

Example

code:

quotient = 20 / 26     Text1.Text = Format(quotient, "0.00")

if you want to round to 3 decimal places you would add an extra 0. and so on.

[Silent Avenger]

Wow thanks for all the help everyone!

[wtd]

Monstrosity_ wrote:

The Currency just provides a different method of storage for your numbers, since you wouldn't use floating-point numbers things such as currency.

Indeed. Never ever use floating point numbers for currency.

If you feel tempted to do so, just watch the movie Office Space.

[RGB255]

This could come in very hany in my final project. Btw what are floating point numbers?

[[Gandalf]]

Floating point numbers, as basically as you can get, are numbers with decimals, for example:
1.56
0.065
16342.6

You could have found this out from a simple Google/Wikipedia search.