Reading floats from a notecard

I have a settings notecard that uses some floats. It seems like when I try to convert the values from string to float I lose everything after the decimal place. anyone have a good way to convert a string to a float? I'm thinking about converting each digit to an integer and multiplying it by 10 or 100, 1000 etc and adding them together and then assign it to a float / 10000.

For what I need 4 decimal places would be plenty but is there a better way?
Also these settings will always be a positive number.

Thanks

Burntout--

Seems like you should be able to type-cast your string as a float all at once after extracting the float portion from the notecard line:

float fMyFloat = (float)your-notecard-string

yeah thats what I did. The string part had "1.9999" which was changed to 1.. seems like it always rounds down.

(Oooops. I see you already have it figured out)

default
{
	touch_start(integer total_number)
	{
		float a = 1.2345678;
		string b = (string)a;
		float c = (float)b;
		llOwnerSay((string)c);
	}
}

outputs: 1.2345678

hmm, well if you guys are so convinced that it should work that way I guess I need to look at my notecard reading code closer to make sure I'm not cutting off the decimals

Post your notecard here.
Are you sure you did not accidentaly use comma instead of dot?

Remember too that floats are not always exact. So it's not unlikely that some numbers will be off by a tiny fraction from what you read in. That's why you never do exact comparisons of floats but check that a number is within a tiny range of the target.

lol ok, I'm a moron.

I had a bunch of settings in this notecard and I guess on this one I had it set to integer. I changed it to float and it worked perfect, imagine that.

Sorry for wasting your time.

Well I don't know about you but I seem to learn more from my dumb mistakes then from my regular ones

Burntout--
Glad to hear you have it working!



I'm with you 100% on this one Jesse