[RESOLVED] Taking Result And Converting to Percentage

I'm trying to take a result for a simple website conversion calculator and turn that into a percentage. So for example, if the result is 0.314500 I want to turn that into 31.4%.

Here is the code I have so far for this:

Visual Basic 2008 Code:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim d As Decimal
        d = (TextBox2.Text.ToString / TextBox1.Text.ToString)
        Me.TextBox3.Text = Decimal.Round(d, 4).ToString("f6")
    End Sub

Why are you calling ToString on the text property of a textbox ? It is already a string.

You should be converting to a numeric type in order for your calculation to make sense.

I'd recommend turning Option Strict on and fixing the errors that highlights.

Why don't you multiply your decimal by 100 and then cut off however many places after the decimal point you want.

I tried turning it on and got no difference...I will remove the .tostring reference but do you have example code to take the result and do the conversion?

vb Code:

percentage = (result * 100).tostring("n2")

Quote:

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do you have example code to take the result and do the conversion?

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How about

Code:

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        Dim d As Decimal
        d = (Decimal.Parse(TextBox2.Text) / Decimal.Parse(TextBox1.Text))
        MessageBox.Show(Decimal.Round(d, 4).ToString("f1"))

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For simplicity I'm assuming that you've already validated that textbox2.text and textbox1.text both contain text that can be resolved to decimal values.

Ok t3kizzleee I did that and it did give me the result but I'd like to have it cut off all but lets say 31.4% as an example result.

keystone paul was talking about performing mathematical operations on strings, which you should never do. option strict on, wouldn't allow that.

Thanks .paul. that did it :-)