P dbl

19.0.0 released Nov 08, 2023

P dbl

Purpose: Outputs a floating point number.

p-dbl <double number> [ bytes-written [ define ] <bytes written> ]

p-dbl outputs a floating point number expression given by <double number>. The output is sent to a client that made the request. If this is within write-string, then <double number> is output into the buffer that builds a new string.

Note that number must be of "dbl" type (which is "double" C type).

If "bytes-written" clause is used, then the number of bytes output will be in <bytes written>, which can be created with an optional "define".

Examples

To output a number to a client:

dbl x = 100.51;
p-dbl x