A Bacon programming question.

[tony]

Hi,

How do I input three floating point numbers without hitting the enter key three times?

Is BaCon the right language to use for simple floating point maths?

Regards Tony.

[L18L]

Hi,

How do I input three floating point numbers without hitting the enter key three times?

Is BaCon the right language to use for simple floating point maths?

Regards Tony.

Make a GUI and use the mouse thus you don´t have to hit the enter key. Or separate them by a space, hit the enter key once and use the words.....

simplest tool for floating point math is /usr/bin/bc
ex:

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# echo "3.14*2" | bc -l
6.28
#

[tony]

Hi L18L,

thank you for coming back. Here is my simple Bacon program :-

DECLARE prot,carbs,fat,points TYPE float

INPUT "protein ",prot
INPUT "carbohydrates ",carbs
INPUT "fat ",fat
points = prot/10.94 + carbs/9.17 + fat/3.89
PRINT "points: ",points

I would like to replace the three input statements by a single one liner.

Obviously inputting floating point numbers into say a three by three, or an even larger matrix would be a bit tedious.

My apologies for not being very clear in my first post

Regards Tony.

[L18L]

Hi Tony,

try this:

DECLARE prot,carbs,fat,points TYPE float

'INPUT "protein ",prot
'INPUT "carbohydrates ",carbs
'INPUT "fat ",fat

INPUT "protein carb fat: ", pcf$
SPLIT pcf$ BY " " TO c$ SIZE num
prot = VAL(c$[0])
carbs = VAL(c$[1])
fat = VAL(c$[2])

points = prot/10.94 + carbs/9.17 + fat/3.89

PRINT "points: ",points

[tony]

Hi L18L,

many thanks, that Bacon code you posted works and is exactly what I required.

Regards Tony.