float data type - change the number of decimal places

[lakefalos]

Hello Group,
Can someone please tell me where do I change the number of decimal places for a float data type in the para. Also what is maximum you can assign. Thanks!

Lori.

[adaneau]

Hi,

What's your issue here? Para is a display tool so it shows what is defined inside the common / format section of the dpe (precision is max number of digit and scale is decimal point precision.

However this doesnt impact the float itself, which follows classic float rules

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/types/limits


The float precision is only for displaying, including para.

BR
Alexandre

[lakefalos]

Hi Alexandre,
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. You answered part of the question - I couldn't find where the scaling and precision parameters lived. Now I know!

I dynamically populate the para so I need to know how do I write to the precision and common parameters via scripting?

[adaneau]

Hi Lori,

Just use dpSetFormat

Br
Alex

[lakefalos]

ah..of course. Thanks