User:Toady Nakamura/Demo Typecast Random Float and Integer

Demonstrates Typecasting... from float & integer to string

* Floats are numbers with decimal places (3.1416 or 100.99)
* Integers are round numbers (1, 3, 99, 2005)
* Strings are anything enclosed in "quotes".

Here we take a number (randomly picked from zero to ten) and show you how to output it as both a float and integer.

That's called "type-casting"... changing one type of data to another.

Put this script in a prim and poke the prim to see float values and their corresponding integer values

<lsl> default {

   touch_start(integer detected_index)
   {
       float number = llFrand(10.0);  //pick a number between zero and the number in parenthesis

       string numString = (string)number;  // make a string to hold the answer

       llOwnerSay("The float value = " + numString ); // tell owner the value as float

       integer numInteger = (integer)number;  // convert the same number already picked

       numString = (string)numInteger; // to a string so it can be "said"

       llOwnerSay("The integer value = " + numString);  // tell owner the value as integer
   }

} </lsl>

• Toadified July 5, 2012 --Toady Nakamura