E+005 number view- change to view entire number

Hi,

I have a list of numbers being output to a panel but they are large so they are viewed as E+... instead of the whole number. Is there a way to change the setting so that when I output the file into a .csv file they are in their actual number format?

example: 2.350600E+005 (scientific notation) would be viewed as 235060.0 instead.

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on October 1, 2009 at 5:23am

Use this formula in an expression component: format("{0}",x)
Connect the point list to the 'x' input and the expression component should return the list of points without scientific notation.

Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Tweedale on October 1, 2009 at 6:55am

Thanks Vicente...

Do you know,
Is there a way to easily remove the '{' and '}' so that the outFile just has #,#,#?

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on October 1, 2009 at 7:26am

use this formula then: format("{0},{1},{2}",x.x,x.y,x.z)

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on October 1, 2009 at 9:08am

I've also been wondering about this for some time.

Thank you Vincente for sharing and thank you Elizabeth for asking

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 1, 2009 at 11:14am

There are a lot of formatting tricks for numbers available through the Format() function.

Standard formatting tags

Custom formatting tags

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Seattle, WA

Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Tweedale on October 7, 2009 at 5:45am

Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Philipp on September 7, 2012 at 5:29am

why this is not working now?

I used this format issue for a long time but it is not working now on the last grasshopper...

Permalink Reply by Jesus Galvez on November 21, 2012 at 12:46pm

Its a bit out of context and out of date, but is it possible to find the pathmapper component operators listed and explained in a page like the links which you gave above?

Thanks

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 6, 2013 at 11:04am

Grasshopper (like Rhino) only supports English numeric formatting by default. The confusion would be complete if we allowed variable notation like that.

If you must create Dutch floating point numbers for export or display purposes then I'm afraid you'll have to perform a string replace operation. And since you're swapping two characters, you'll need to perform a game of Three-card-Monty as well:

I could add a Culture input to the Format component, you could then specify a culture such as "nl-NL". Cultures are also used to modify the way strings are sorted so maybe the string sort component also needs a culture input.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 22, 2013 at 3:52am

I added culture data to Grasshopper and now Sorting and Formatting can be made to use the rules of a specific culture/language:

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on November 10, 2009 at 3:15am

How do you fix the number of decimal places in this sort of formating statement?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 10, 2009 at 4:02am

Fixed number of decimals:

Format("{0:0.00000}", x) //exactly 5 decimals...

Format("{0:0.00###}", x) //at least 2 decimals, but we allow for 3 more if they're non-trivial.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia