Hey all! I was wondering if there was a way to better use Print(U)Int( in ICE so that it will print out numbers with differing amount of digits (Ex. PrintUInt(82,4) prints 0082). If there is some way of having a method that would find the digit count or some other way to print similar to the Float option. I know the mod(10) /10 but I'm not sure how to do this so it works with decimals and is in ICE. Thanks to any who can help or provide tips!

What I've done before is created a label that returns the number of characters in a given input. I don't know if this is the best way to do things.

Here's an example. I want to print out 82 (this could also be a variable).


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That is a very bad way to do it, and it reminds me of this meme from reddit.



Ideally, you would do this with a log(), but ICE doesn't have that, but I would suggest to just use the asm call.
Unfortunately, I don't know how ICE stores and uses variables, PT_ could surely help out here, so I will pretend the number you are trying to find the length of is in Ans, because there are calls for that too.

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Which in hex, looks like this:

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Then just use the Asm() command to insert it into your ICE program like this

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However, this assumes that the value is stored in Ans, which is not the case with ICE variables, so getting the values of the variables and setting them won't be as easy as just RclAns and StoAns.

Your way is much worse. In fact, dankcalculatorbro's is probably the best.

I would suggest this way as well. I implemented a similar concept in my StockSim program. Until a feature to auto-detect the number of digits is added, this will remain the best way to accomplish this.

(Note to self, use this code instead and optimize)

The difference is that my way is not hard coded, and will work on any given input. Granted, the speed is probably what made you sad, but I would prefer having fault tolerance over speed (in a case where there really is no noticeable difference either way). Also, if PT_ wanted to, he could easily make an optimized Log function, since you only need the truncation of the result, which could make this much faster.

This looks like a better and simpler way to do it to me:

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Might requires some optimization though.

try poking PT_ for toString in ICE
(and maybe a few other tokens, like eval or expr, whichever one it is that takes a string and outputs a number... I forget...)

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Just a FYI, I already asked for expr() here

I think I have the most optimized version:

Step 1: Download the latest CE libraries from github.
Step 2: Write moar optimized code:

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Step 3: Enjoy Be sure to thank Runer for this handy optimization and code!

Ooh. This will reduce alot off of my previous programs!

Although not released yet, PT_ has already implemented Log() and toString()
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