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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Text command + a variable?

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Turtle Productions
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Posted: 9th Oct 2010 13:57
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Hey. I have used other BASIC language what has ability to use this:

Text x,y,"Money: "+money#

The variable money can be changed (in this example - money, you can buy a thing then it reduces the amount of money and so...)
But I haven't found any way to do this in DBPro. I know that I could use this with Print command but it is so buggy, I want use text, if possible. Is there a way to do it?

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TP
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Rudolpho
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Posted: 9th Oct 2010 14:15
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There is no automatical conversion between numerics to strings in DB.
You can achieve what you want by using the str$(value) function though.
Like so:


Similarily, you can also convert a string to a numeric value using the val(string$) function.

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Turtle Productions
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Posted: 9th Oct 2010 20:49
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Thank you very much, Rudolpho!

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HowDo
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Posted: 11th Oct 2010 11:55
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plus if you do this str$(money#,2) will show two decimal places.

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Turtle Productions
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Posted: 16th Oct 2010 11:25
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Thanks a lot HowDo, that was a thing in a very need
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Indicium
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I think you would be better of using integers for money, and inserting the decimal place after you've converted it to a string.

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Burning Feet Man
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Posted: 18th Oct 2010 05:03
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Cheers for that tip Howdo, str$(money#,2) will produce two decimal places! Awesome stuff.
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