Hello,
How can I require that one decimal place is entered for a question on a form?
Ex. This is allowed: '8.1' But this is not allowed: '8' or this '8.11'
Thank you!
This is tricky.
It is far easier to take the user's input and round it up to the nearest
decimal during your analysis or in subsequent computations.
And why is '8' not good? How is it not equivalent to someone entering '8.0'
?
If you must do this, you should probably collect string values -- using the
appearance="numbers" to force the numeric keyboard.
But first double-check that the decimal point is available on that keyboard
for your particular device (the pop-up keyboards vary).
You could then use a regular expression (regex) to force the exact
representation you want. e.g.,
regex(.,'[0-9]+[.][0-9]')
as the constraint for this string value.
If you then needed to use it in a computation, you can do
number(${fieldname})
to convert it to a decimal value. Note that this value might be something
like 8.20000001 due to the inexactness of floating point representations.
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On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 1:35 AM, wrote:Hello,
How can I require that one decimal place is entered for a question on a
form?Ex. This is allowed: '8.1' But this is not allowed: '8' or this '8.11'
Thank you!
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