Re: Full precision double to string conversion
On Saturday, 3 November 2018 at 18:04:07 UTC, Stanislav Blinov
wrote:
On Saturday, 3 November 2018 at 17:26:19 UTC, Ecstatic Coder
wrote:
void main() {
double value = -12.000123456;
int precision = 50;
import std.stdio;
writefln("%.*g", precision, value);
import std.format;
string str = format("%.*g", precision, value);
writeln(str);
}
Prints:
-12.00012345600743415512260980904102325439453125
-12.00012345600743415512260980904102325439453125
That's not quite the -12.000123456 that you'd get from C#'s
ToString().
Unfortunately, but that's still better though, thanks :)
I don't think you understood what I meant. Neither C# nor D
attempt to exhaust the precision when converting, given default
arguments. It's merely a matter of those defaults. The snippet
above obviously provides *more* digits that the default
.ToString() in C# would.
But indeed what I really need is a D function which gives a
better decimal approximation to the provided double constant,
exactly in the same way those in Dart and C# do.
Is there really no such function in D ?
When you call .ToString() in C# with no arguments, it assumes
the "G" format specifier.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/standard-numeric-format-strings?view=netframework-4.7.2#the-general-g-format-specifier
So for a double, it will use 15-digit precision. D's to!string
simply uses lower default. If you want the exact same behavior
as in C#, you can do this:
string toStringLikeInCSharp(double value) {
import std.format : format;
return format("%.15G", value);
}
void main() {
double value = -12.000123456;
import std.stdio;
writeln(value.toStringLikeInCSharp); // prints:
-12.000123456
}
This version perfectly gets the job done!
Thanks a lot for your help :)
Re: Full precision double to string conversion
On Saturday, 3 November 2018 at 17:26:19 UTC, Ecstatic Coder
wrote:
void main() {
double value = -12.000123456;
int precision = 50;
import std.stdio;
writefln("%.*g", precision, value);
import std.format;
string str = format("%.*g", precision, value);
writeln(str);
}
Prints:
-12.00012345600743415512260980904102325439453125
-12.00012345600743415512260980904102325439453125
That's not quite the -12.000123456 that you'd get from C#'s
ToString().
Unfortunately, but that's still better though, thanks :)
I don't think you understood what I meant. Neither C# nor D
attempt to exhaust the precision when converting, given default
arguments. It's merely a matter of those defaults. The snippet
above obviously provides *more* digits that the default
.ToString() in C# would.
But indeed what I really need is a D function which gives a
better decimal approximation to the provided double constant,
exactly in the same way those in Dart and C# do.
Is there really no such function in D ?
When you call .ToString() in C# with no arguments, it assumes the
"G" format specifier.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/standard-numeric-format-strings?view=netframework-4.7.2#the-general-g-format-specifier
So for a double, it will use 15-digit precision. D's to!string
simply uses lower default. If you want the exact same behavior as
in C#, you can do this:
string toStringLikeInCSharp(double value) {
import std.format : format;
return format("%.15G", value);
}
void main() {
double value = -12.000123456;
import std.stdio;
writeln(value.toStringLikeInCSharp); // prints: -12.000123456
}
Re: Full precision double to string conversion
Actually, what I need is the D equivalent of the default
ToString() function we have in Dart and C#.
I don't think it means what you think it means:
void main() {
double value = -12.000123456;
int precision = 50;
import std.stdio;
writefln("%.*g", precision, value);
import std.format;
string str = format("%.*g", precision, value);
writeln(str);
}
Prints:
-12.00012345600743415512260980904102325439453125
-12.00012345600743415512260980904102325439453125
That's not quite the -12.000123456 that you'd get from C#'s
ToString().
Unfortunately, but that's still better though, thanks :)
All of them? Most implementations of conversion algorithms
actually stop when it's "good enough". AFAIR, D doesn't even
have it's own implementation and forwards to C, unless that
changed in recent years.
What I meant was that getting too many significant digits would
still be a better solution than not having them.
But indeed what I really need is a D function which gives a
better decimal approximation to the provided double constant,
exactly in the same way those in Dart and C# do.
Is there really no such function in D ?
Re: Full precision double to string conversion
On Saturday, 3 November 2018 at 13:20:22 UTC, Ecstatic Coder
wrote:
On Saturday, 3 November 2018 at 12:45:03 UTC, Danny Arends
wrote:
How can I convert a double value -12.000123456 to its string
value "-12.000123456", i.e. without loosing double-precision
digits ?
Specify how many digits you want with writefln:
writefln("%.8f", value);
Actually, what I need is the D equivalent of the default
ToString() function we have in Dart and C#.
I don't think it means what you think it means:
void main() {
double value = -12.000123456;
int precision = 50;
import std.stdio;
writefln("%.*g", precision, value);
import std.format;
string str = format("%.*g", precision, value);
writeln(str);
}
Prints:
-12.00012345600743415512260980904102325439453125
-12.00012345600743415512260980904102325439453125
That's not quite the -12.000123456 that you'd get from C#'s
ToString().
I mean a dumb double-to-string standard library conversion
function which returns a string including all the double
precision digits stored in the 52 significant bits of the
value, preferably with the trailing zeroes removed.
All of them? Most implementations of conversion algorithms
actually stop when it's "good enough". AFAIR, D doesn't even have
it's own implementation and forwards to C, unless that changed in
recent years.
Re: Full precision double to string conversion
On Saturday, 3 November 2018 at 12:45:03 UTC, Danny Arends wrote:
On Saturday, 3 November 2018 at 12:27:19 UTC, Ecstatic Coder
wrote:
import std.conv;
import std.stdio;
void main()
{
double value = -12.000123456;
writeln( value.sizeof );
writeln( value );
writeln( value.to!string() );
writeln( value.to!dstring() );
}
/*
8
-12.0001
-12.0001
-12.0001
*/
In Dart, value.toString() returns "-12.000123456".
In C#, value.ToString() returns "-12.000123456".
In D, value.to!string() returns "-12.0001" :(
How can I convert a double value -12.000123456 to its string
value "-12.000123456", i.e. without loosing double-precision
digits ?
Specify how many digits you want with writefln:
writefln("%.8f", value);
Actually, what I need is the D equivalent of the default
ToString() function we have in Dart and C#.
I mean a dumb double-to-string standard library conversion
function which returns a string including all the double
precision digits stored in the 52 significant bits of the value,
preferably with the trailing zeroes removed.
For an unknown reason, D's default double-to-string conversion
function only expose the single-precision significant digits :(
Re: Full precision double to string conversion
On Saturday, 3 November 2018 at 12:27:19 UTC, Ecstatic Coder
wrote:
import std.conv;
import std.stdio;
void main()
{
double value = -12.000123456;
writeln( value.sizeof );
writeln( value );
writeln( value.to!string() );
writeln( value.to!dstring() );
}
/*
8
-12.0001
-12.0001
-12.0001
*/
In Dart, value.toString() returns "-12.000123456".
In C#, value.ToString() returns "-12.000123456".
In D, value.to!string() returns "-12.0001" :(
How can I convert a double value -12.000123456 to its string
value "-12.000123456", i.e. without loosing double-precision
digits ?
Specify how many digits you want with writefln:
writefln("%.8f", value);
Full precision double to string conversion
import std.conv;
import std.stdio;
void main()
{
double value = -12.000123456;
writeln( value.sizeof );
writeln( value );
writeln( value.to!string() );
writeln( value.to!dstring() );
}
/*
8
-12.0001
-12.0001
-12.0001
*/
In Dart, value.toString() returns "-12.000123456".
In C#, value.ToString() returns "-12.000123456".
In D, value.to!string() returns "-12.0001" :(
How can I convert a double value -12.000123456 to its string
value "-12.000123456", i.e. without loosing double-precision
digits ?
