Math wizard anyone????

Hi there,


Can anybody help me on converting fractions to its decimals equivalent, like, 1/2 = .50 , 3/4 = .75 and so on.
(I'm using a text box input fractions and results would be in decimals)


Any help much appreciated. Thanks in advance...

If you have two text boxes one on top of the other then you can just devide the top by the bottom and have the result appear in the third box.

Code:

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Text3.Text = Text1.Text / Text2.Text

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Hope that helps,
D!m

Ah, err, mine was a bit complicated, for ex. i would input 1/2 on a textbox then the resulst in the other...

use the code that DIM gave you, if you are concernetd about the 2 text boxes instead of one, do this:

Code:

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Private Sub Text1_Change()
    If Len(text1.Text) = 1 Then
        text2.SetFocus
    End If
End Sub

Private Sub Text2_Change()
    If Len(text3.Text) = 1 Then
        text2.SetFocus
    End If
End Sub

Private Sub Text1_GotFocus()
text3.text = text1.text / text2.text
End Sub

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hope thats what you need

Ok, ill try it...


Thanks man...

2 mistakes, corrected code:

Code:

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Private Sub Text1_Change()
    If Len(text1.Text) = 1 Then
        text2.SetFocus
    End If
End Sub

Private Sub Text2_Change()
    If Len(text2.Text) = 1 Then
        text3.SetFocus
    End If
End Sub

Private Sub Text1_GotFocus()
text3.text = text1.text / text2.text
End Sub

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Right, I'm pretty sure he wants this as a single string.

Try this:

(assuming your fraction is in a Textbox called Text1 and your decimal value appears in one called Text2)

Code:

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Text2.Text = Val(Left(InStr(Text1.Text, "/")-1))/Val(Right(Len(Text1.Text)-InStr(Text1.Text, "/")))

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Or to make that a little more legible:

Code:

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Dim fracVal As String
Dim decVal As Double
Dim slashPos as Integer
fracVal = Text1.Text
slashPos = InStr(fracVal, "/")
fracVal = Val(Left(slashPos - 1) / Val(Right(Len(fracVal) - slashPos))
Text2.Text = fracVal

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See how that does ya :)

curlywink-- though mine is much uglier than those preceding, here's the longhand shortbrained response:
Dim strFraction As String, aa As String
Dim intNumerator As Integer, intDenominator As Integer
Dim x As Integer, i As Integer
'
strFraction$ = Text1.Text 'make the text a string variable
x = Len(strFraction$) 'get the total # of characters in _
' the fraction
For i = 1 To x
aa$ = Mid$(strFraction$, i, 1) 'find what's to the left and
' rt of the /
If aa$ = "/" Then intNumerator = Val(Left$(strFraction$, i - 1)): intDenominator = Val(Right$(strFraction$, x - i))
Next i


good luck

Put a little tweak on HarryW's code.

Code:

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Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim fracVal As String
Dim decVal As Double
Dim slashPos As Integer
fracVal = Text1.Text
slashPos = InStr(fracVal, "/")
decVal = Val(Left(fracVal, slashPos - 1)) / Val(Right(fracVal, slashPos))
Text2.Text = decVal
End Sub

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[Edited by kokopeli on 09-21-2000 at 02:31 AM]

Thanks guys, help much appreciated....

and I put a little tweek on kokopeli's code :)

Code:

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Private Sub Command1_Click()

  Dim fracVal As String
  Dim decVal As Double, dNum As Double, dDev As Double
  Dim slashPos As Integer
 
  fracVal = Trim(Text1.Text)
  slashPos = InStr(fracVal, "/")
 
  dNum = CDbl(Left$(fracVal, slashPos - 1))
  dDev = CDbl(Mid(fracVal, slashPos + 1, Len(fracVal) - slashPos))
 
  If dNum <> 0 And dDev <> 0 Then
    decVal = dNum / dDev
    Text2.Text = decVal
  Else
    Text2.Text = "Can not divied by Zero"
  End If
   
End Sub

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Best,

'if the fractions are entered in code
ie. text1= 1/2 then use that and not text1 = "1/2"

Text3 = Val(Text1) / Val(Text2)

I'm fairly sure that curlywink said he wanted to use 2 textboxes, one for input and one for output.

Quote:

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Originally posted by curlywink
Ah, err, mine was a bit complicated, for ex. i would input 1/2 on a textbox then the resulst in the other...

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Here cutly wink says that he wants the input in one text box, and the output in another