Hi gurus,
I am running Studio 5000 and am building a comma delimited data string to send out via ASCII with the 5069-SERIAL card (CompactLogix).
I am more familiar with Siemens on this, and there is a function called VAL_STRG in which you can convert a real to a string and define the precision or how many decimal places it will have (attached).
I am unable to find something similar and am scratching my head at how to write something robust enough to accommodate a real number that can have one or two decimal places and convert it to a string that will HOLD that precision throughout the range of the number. I guess for a number with one decimal place I could multiply by 100, convert to STRING, and then insert the decimal place, but it sounds like maybe overkill....? Currently if I bring the real even to a user-defined STRING of say 5 characters, the decimal "moves" as the number grows or shrinks.
Any help or hint in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
