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alphachapmtl Full Member Offline Posts: 128 Canada	format print(float) May 20th, 2007, 10:19am   How to print/format a float value ? a=123.4305474; print(a); // output is 123.43055 What if I want 123.4305474 or 123.4 ? is there a simple way ? something like print(a:1); to get 123.4 ?

JohnG Ex Member	Re: format print(float) Reply #1 - May 20th, 2007, 11:55am   Have a look at http://processing.org/reference/nf_.html

alphachapmtl Full Member Offline Posts: 128 Canada	Re: format print(float) Reply #2 - May 21st, 2007, 4:35am   Thanks, the functions nf(), nfs(), nfp(), nfc() will help. I didn't know about them (and more...) cause I was always checking the 'Abridged' Reference page. So if a=123.4305474, then print(sf(a,3,2)); will print 123.43