For example:
Code:

proc funct {} { return [expr 10/3]       }

Function 'funct' returns '3'. How i can get floating-point value?

By doing a floating point operation rather than an integer one.

For example

expr 10./3

(note the extra "." after the 10)

Thnx for answer!

But it's so inconveniently. For example I write plugin for some software on Tcl/Tk and it software application sends to Tcl value '10'. How I do convert it to '10.'  ?


In most circumstances, the way Tcl does it is very clever and elegant - you do a division using floating point numbers and it does a floating point division ... give it integers and it knows to do an integer division.

If you want to divide an integer by an integer using a floating point division, you need to convert at least one of them. Personally, I often multiply by 1.0 or add 0.0 before dividing as that will work no matter what type of number the input variables are.

Code:

set tom 10 set fred 3 set result [expr 1.0 * $tom / $fred]

If you can be certain that one of your input variables is an integer, you can just add a "." in the code:

Code:

set tom 10 set fred 3 set result [expr $tom / $fred.]

on 07/21/05 at 06:09:56, Graham Ellis wrote:

I often multiply by 1.0 or add 0.0 before dividing

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