Pascal, how to mark an integer into money value - delphi

How can I mark an integer into thousands and hundreds?
Just say I have an integer 12345678910, then I want to change it into a money value like 12.345.678.910.
I try the following code but it is not working.
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
j,iPos,i, x, y : integer;
sTemp, original, hasil, data : string;
begin
original := edit1.Text;
sTemp := '';
j := length(edit1.Text);
i := 3;
while i < j do
begin
insert('.',original, (j-i));
edit1.Text := original;
j := length(edit1.Text);
for x := 1 to y do
begin
i := i + ( i + x );
end;
end;
edit2.Text := original;

There is System.SysUtils.Format call in Delphi http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Tokyo/en/System.SysUtils.Format.
This call understand 'm' character as money specific formatter.
Try code like this:
Value := 12345678910;
FormattedStr := Format('Money = %m', [Value])
By default Format will use systemwide format settings, if you have to override default system settings, see official docs:
The conversion is controlled by the CurrencyString, CurrencyFormat,
NegCurrFormat, ThousandSeparator, DecimalSeparator, and
CurrencyDecimals global variables or their equivalent in a
TFormatSettings data structure. If the format string contains a
precision specifier, it overrides the value given by the
CurrencyDecimals global variable or its TFormatSettings equivalent.

This function does what you specify:
function FormatThousandsSeparators(Value: Int64): string;
var
Index: Integer;
begin
Result := IntToStr(Value);
Index := Length(Result) - 3;
while Index > 0 do
begin
Insert('.', Result, Index + 1);
Dec(Index, 3);
end;
end;
Note that your example 12345678910 does not fit into a 32 bit signed integer value which is why I used Int64.
This function does not handle negative values correctly. For instance, it returns '-.999' when passed -999. That can be dealt with like so:
function FormatThousandsSeparators(Value: Int64): string;
var
Index: Integer;
Negative: Boolean;
begin
Negative := Value < 0;
Result := IntToStr(Abs(Value));
Index := Length(Result) - 3;
while Index > 0 do
begin
Insert('.', Result, Index + 1);
Dec(Index, 3);
end;
if Negative then
Result := '-' + Result;
end;

i know now, its so simple. just use
showMessage(formatFloat('#.###.00', strToFloat(original)));
but thanks Remy, you opened my mind.

Related

How to get the string representation of a ShortCut Key including the SHIFTSTATE?

In a Delphi 10.4.2 Win32 VCL Application, and based on the question + solution here which provides a way to get the string representation of a Shortcut Key (but presumably with no possibility to also pass a SHIFTSTATE for the Shortcut Key) I wrote this code:
function MyGetSpecialShortcutName(ShortCut: TShortCut): string;
// gets shortcut name for e.g. VK_NUMPAD0 where TMenuItem.Shortcut gets the wrong shortcut name
var
ScanCode: Integer;
KeyName: array[0..255] of Char;
begin
Result := '';
FillChar(KeyName, SizeOf(KeyName), 0);
ScanCode := Winapi.Windows.MapVirtualKey(LoByte(Word(ShortCut)), 0) shl 16;
if ScanCode <> 0 then
begin
if Winapi.Windows.GetKeyNameText(ScanCode, KeyName, Length(KeyName)) <> 0 then
Result := KeyName;
end;
end;
function GetSpecialShortcutNameWithShiftState(const AScanCode: Word; const AShiftState: System.Classes.TShiftState = []): string;
begin
Result := MyGetSpecialShortcutName(Vcl.Menus.ShortCut(AScanCode, AShiftState));
end;
Usage:
Result := GetSpecialShortcutNameWithShiftState(VK_A, [ssCTRL]);
However, the Result is "A" where the expected Result should be "CTRL+A".
How to get the string representation of a ShortCut Key including the SHIFTSTATE?
The OP wants the key names fully localised, but for completeness I first show that the VCL already has a function to obtain a partly unlocalised string, namely, ShortCutToText in the Menus unit:
ShortCutToText(ShortCut(Ord('A'), [ssShift, ssAlt]))
This returns Shift+Alt+A on all systems.
Now, using the Win32 function GetKeyNameText already mentioned in the Q, it is easy to obtain a fully localised shortcut string:
function GetKeyName(AKey: Integer): string;
var
name: array[0..128] of Char;
begin
FillChar(name, SizeOf(name), 0);
GetKeyNameText(MapVirtualKey(AKey, 0) shl 16, #name[0], Length(name));
Result := name;
end;
function ModifierVirtualKey(AModifier: Integer): Integer;
begin
case AModifier of
Ord(ssShift):
Result := VK_SHIFT;
Ord(ssCtrl):
Result := VK_CONTROL;
Ord(ssAlt):
Result := VK_MENU;
else
Result := 0;
end;
end;
function ShortcutToString(AKey: Integer; AShiftState: TShiftState = []): string;
begin
Result := '';
for var Modifier in AShiftState do
begin
var ModifierKey := ModifierVirtualKey(Ord(Modifier));
if ModifierKey <> 0 then
Result := Result + IfThen(not Result.IsEmpty, '+') + GetKeyName(ModifierKey);
end;
Result := Result + IfThen(not Result.IsEmpty, '+') + GetKeyName(AKey);
end;
(Here I use a IfThen overload from StrUtils.)
Now,
ShortcutToString(Ord('A'), [ssShift, ssAlt])
returns SKIFT+ALT+A on my Swedish system. SKIFT is, as you might already have guessed, the Swedish name for the SHIFT key.

Delphi How To Convert String To Binary Using Only Pascal [duplicate]

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Converting decimal/integer to binary - how and why it works the way it does?
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Closed 4 years ago.
I have done some Example to convert a string to binary but i couldn't find a way to walk on each character in the string and complete the whole calculations process and then step to the next character in the string, Here is my code:
var i,j, rest, results :integer;
restResult : string;
begin
results := 1;
for i := 1 to length(stringValue) do
begin
while (results > 0) do
begin
results := ord(stringValue[i]) div 2;
rest := ord(stringValue[i]) mod 2;
restResult := restResult + inttostr(rest);
end;
end;
// Get The Rests Backwards
for i := length(restResult) downto 1 do
begin
result := result + restResult[i];
end;
The application always get into infinite loop, any suggestions?
Your results := ord(stringValue[i]) div 2; remains the same, because stringValue[i] does not change, so while loop is infinite.
To solve this mistake:
for i := 1 to length(stringValue) do
begin
t := ord(stringValue[i]);
repeat
restResult := restResult + inttostr(t mod 2);
t := t div 2;
until t = 0;
end;
But note that you cannot divide resulting string into pieces for distinct chars, because length of binary representation will vary depending on char itself.
This is example of code with fixed length for representation of char (here AnsiChar):
function AnsiStringToBinaryString(const s: AnsiString): String;
const
SBits: array[0..1] of string = ('0', '1');
var
i, k, t: Integer;
schar: string;
begin
Result := '';
for i := 1 to Length(s) do begin
t := Ord(s[i]);
schar := '';
for k := 1 to 8 * SizeOf(AnsiChar) do begin
schar := SBits[t mod 2] + schar;
t := t div 2
end;
Result := Result + schar;
end;
end;
'#A z': (division bars are mine)
01000000|01000001|00100000|01111010
# A space z

How to limit decimal digits for a ftFloat field?

I need to limit the number of decimal digits that the user can type as value for a ftFloat field.
var
Dst : TClientDataSet;
Dsc : TDataSource;
Fld : TNumericField;
Edt : TDBEdit;
begin
//dataset
Dst := TClientDataSet.Create(Self);
Dst.FieldDefs.Add('TEST', ftFloat);
Dst.CreateDataSet();
Dst.Active := True;
Fld := Dst.Fields[0] as TNumericField;
Dst.Append();
Fld.AsFloat := 1234.56;
Dst.Post();
//field
Fld.DisplayFormat := '0,.##'; //2 optional decimals, with thousands separator
Fld.EditFormat := '0.##'; //2 optional decimals, withhout thousands separator
//datasource
Dsc := TDataSource.Create(Self);
Dsc.DataSet := Dst;
//control
Edt := TDBEdit.Create(Self);
Edt.DataSource := Dsc;
Edt.DataField := Fld.FieldName;
Edt.Top := 5;
Edt.Left := 5;
Edt.Parent := Self;
end;
In the example, after typing 1234,5678, the TDBEdit control displays 1234,56 but the field's value is 1234,5678.
As suggested in this answer, I've tried using the EditMask property.
Fld.EditMask := '9' + DecimalSeparator + '99;1; ';
Unfortunately this approach introduces several problems:
I can't set a variable number of digits for the integer part (e.g. values like 12, 123... can't be typed)
I can't set negative values (e.g. values like -1, -12 can't be typed)
The decimal separator is always visible when editing.
How can I avoid that the user types more than N digits in the decimal part (Without adding any other kind of limitation)?
Rather than avoiding typing the field extra digits, you can also strip the digits before they are posted to the datasaet.
Strip the "extra" digits on the TDataset.OnBeforePost event, or maybe better using the OnDataChange event of a TDatasource. (Pseudocode,untested)
procedure TSomeClass.OnDataChange(aField:TField)
begin
if Assigned(aField) and (aField.FieldName='TEST') and not aField.IsNull then
aField.AsFloat:=round(aField.AsFloat*100)/100.0;
end;
As I found nothing in standard VCL controls to achieve this, my approach would be to have a TDBEdit descendant that can be assigned desired DecimalPlaces and can then prohibit the user from entering more than configured.
This is independent of the underlying data-type, but for ftFloat it will try to convert the resulting value, eliminating e.g. multiple times decimalseperator.
This uses KeyPress to eliminate unwanted keys that would invalidate the current value, either adding too many decimal places or in case of ftFloat not being convertible by TryStrToFloat.
An example using sample then would be:
//control
Edt := TDecimalPlacesDBEdit.Create(Self);
Edt.DataSource := Dsc;
Edt.DataField := Fld.FieldName;
Edt.Top := 5;
Edt.Left := 5;
Edt.Parent := Self;
Edt.DecimalPlaces := 2;
Here is an implementation approach in a new unit:
unit Unit1;
interface
uses
Vcl.DBCtrls;
type
TDecimalPlacesDBEdit = class(TDBEdit)
private
FDecimalPlaces: Integer;
function IsValidChar(Key: Char): Boolean;
protected
procedure KeyPress(var Key: Char); override;
public
property DecimalPlaces: Integer read FDecimalPlaces write FDecimalPlaces;
end;
implementation
uses
System.SysUtils,
Data.DB,
Winapi.Windows;
{ TDecimalPlacesDBEdit }
function TDecimalPlacesDBEdit.IsValidChar(Key: Char): Boolean;
function IsValidText(const S: string): Boolean;
var
ADecPos, AStartPos: Integer;
V: Double;
begin
Result := False;
ADecPos := Pos(FormatSettings.DecimalSeparator, S);
if ADecPos > 0 then
begin
AStartPos := Pos('E', UpperCase(S));
if AStartPos > ADecPos then
ADecPos := AStartPos - ADecPos - 1
else
ADecPos := Length(S) - ADecPos;
if ADecPos > DecimalPlaces then
Exit;
end;
if Assigned(Field) and (Field.DataType in [ftFloat{, ftSingle, ftExtended}]) then
Result := TryStrToFloat(S, V)
else
Result := True;
end;
var
AEndPos, AStartPos: Integer;
S: string;
begin
Result := DecimalPlaces = 0;
if not Result then
begin
S := Text;
AStartPos := SelStart;
AEndPos := SelStart + SelLength;
// Prepare current Text as if the user typed his key, then check if still valid.
Delete(S, SelStart + 1, AEndPos - AStartPos);
Insert(Key, S, AStartPos + 1);
Result := IsValidText(S);
end;
end;
procedure TDecimalPlacesDBEdit.KeyPress(var Key: Char);
begin
inherited KeyPress(Key);
if (Key >= #32) and not IsValidChar(Key) then
begin
MessageBeep(0);
Key := #0;
end;
end;
end.

Reverse strings in an array

procedure ReverseArray(var A : array of string);
var I,J,L : integer;
begin
for I := Low(A) to High(A) do
begin
L := length(A[I]);
for J := L downto 1 do M := M + A[I];
end;
writeln(M);
end;
begin
for I := 1 to 4 do readln(T[I]);
ReverseArray(T);
sleep(40000);
end.
What I'm trying to do here basically is reverse every string in the array but I'm unable to do it , what the code above do is basically repeat the words depends on their length (I write 'bob' in the array , the procedure will give me 'bob' three times because the length is 3) ... not sure why it's not working properly and what I'm missing
Delphi has a ReverseString() function in the StrUtils unit.
uses
StrUtils;
type
TStrArray = array of string;
procedure ReverseArray(var A : TStrArray);
var
I: integer;
begin
for I := Low(A) to High(A) do
A[I] := ReverseString(A[I]);
end;
var
T: TStrArray;
I: Integer
begin
SetLength(T, 4);
for I := 1 to 4 do Readln(T[I]);
ReverseArray(T);
...
end.
A string is an array of char with some extra bells and whistles added.
So an array of string is a lot like an array of array of char.
If you want to reverse the string, you'll have to access every char and reverse it.
procedure ReverseArray(var A : array of string);
var
i,j,Len : integer;
B: string;
begin
for i := Low(A) to High(A) do begin
Len := length(A[i]);
SetLength(B, Len); //Make B the same length as A[i].
//B[Len] = A[i][1]; B[Len-1]:= A[i][2] etc...
for j := Len downto 1 do B[j]:= A[i][(Len-J)+1];
//Store the reversed string back in the array.
A[i]:= B;
//Because A is a var parameter it will be returned.
//Writeln(B); //Write B for debugging purposes.
end;
end;
var
i: integer;
Strings: array [0..3] of string;
begin
for i := 0 to 3 do readln(Strings[i]);
ReverseArray(Strings);
for i := 0 to 3 do writeln(Strings[i]);
WriteLn('Done, press a key...');
ReadLn;
end.
Some tips:
Do not use global variables like M but declare a local variable instead.
Don't do AStr:= AStr + AChar in a loop, if you can avoid it. If you know how long the result is going to be use the SetLength trick as shown in the code. It's generates much faster code.
Instead of a Sleep you can use a ReadLn to halt a console app. It will continue as soon as you press a key.
Don't put the writeln in your working routine.
Note the first element in a string is 1, but the first element in a array is 0 (unless otherwise defined); Dynamic arrays always start counting from zero.
Note that array of string in a parameter definition is an open array; a different thing from a dynamic array.
Single uppercase identifiers like T, K, etc are usually used for generic types, you shouldn't use them for normal variables; Use a descriptive name instead.
Come on! 'bob' is one of those words you shouldn't try to test a reverse routine. But the problem goes beyond that.
Your problem is in here
for J := L downto 1 do
M := M + A[I];
You are trying to add the whole string to the M variable instead of the character you are trying to access. So, it should be
for J := L downto 1 do
M := M + A[I][J];
Also you need to set M := '' inside the first loop where it will have nothing when you start accumulating characters in to it.
Third, move the writing part, WriteLn(M), inside the first loop where you get a nice, separated outputs.
Putting together, it is going to be:
for I := Low(A) to High(A) do
begin
L := length(A[I]);
M := '';
for J := L downto 1 do
M := M + A[I][J];
writeln(M);
end;
My preferred solution for this is
type
TStringModifier = function(const s: string): string;
procedure ModifyEachOf( var aValues: array of string; aModifier: TStringModifier );
var
lIdx: Integer;
begin
for lIdx := Low(aValues) to High(aValues) do
aValues[lIdx] := aModifier( aValues[lIdx] );
end;
and it ends up with
var
MyStrings: array[1..3] of string;
begin
MyStrings[1] := '123';
MyStrings[2] := '456';
MyStrings[3] := '789';
ModifyEachOf( MyStrings, SysUtils.ReverseString );
end;
uses
System.SysUtils, System.StrUtils;
var
Forwards, backwards : string;
begin
forwards:= 'abcd';
backwards:= ReverseString(forwards);
Writeln(backwards);
Readln;
end;
// dcba

How do I convert a `string` of `integers` in `hexadecimal` (and back)?

I want to convert a string of integers in hexadecimal (and the opposite).
I've seen the IntToHex functions, but it uses a small integer.
For example, I need to convert the number:
999888777666555444 in hexadecimal
and then the opposite:
hexadecimal number in 999888777666555444
If you need to convert more than 8-bytes values, you can represent your very-long-integer as array of byte, word, dword or something. In that case you should just convert any particular item and concatenate results. Opposite is the same (only thing you should remember is value should be considered as right-aligned).
converting a arbitrary length buffer to hex:
function HexDump(const _Buffer; _Len: integer): string;
type
PByte = ^Byte;
var
i: integer;
p: PByte;
begin
p := #_Buffer;
Result := '';
for i := 0 to _Len - 1 do begin
Result := Result + Long2Hex2(p^);
Inc(p);
end;
end;
And the utility functions used by this:
const
/// <summary>
/// String containing all characters that can be used as digits
/// </summary>
DIGIT_CHARS: string = '0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKlMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
function Long2Num(_l: ULong; _Base: Byte; _MinWidth: Integer = 1): string;
var
m: Byte;
begin
Result := '';
while _l > 0 do begin
m := _l mod _Base;
_l := _l div _Base;
Result := DIGIT_CHARS[m + 1] + Result;
end;
while Length(Result) < _MinWidth do
Result := '0' + Result;
end;
function Long2Hex(_l: ULong): string;
begin
Result := Long2Num(_l, 16);
end;
function Long2Hex2(_l: ULong): string;
begin
Result := Long2Hex(_l);
if Length(Result) < 2 then
Result := '0' + Result;
end;
These functions are part of my dzlib.
Note: This does not generate the hex numbers as you might expect them, e.g. if you pass an integer to the function like this:
var
IntValue: integer;
begin
IntValue := $12345678;
s := HexDump(IntValue, SizeOf(IntValue));
end;
You end up with s = '78563412' because Intel processors store integers in little endian format.
Unfortunately the other way round is more difficult, because there is no standard arbitrary length integer type in Delphi. There are some implementations of such a type though.

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