StrToDouble() and StringToDouble() adds unnecessary floating digits.

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Hussein Saade
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StringToDouble("80.198")

Output: 80.19799999999999

Caught this by coincidence. I have tried all sorts of conversions, NormalizeDouble (string to double to string). so on and so forth. But still, it beats me to understand why this is happening.


Appreciate any help.

Thanks.

William Roeder
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William Roeder  

  1. Floating-point has an infinite number of decimals, it's your not understanding floating-point and that some numbers can't be represented exactly. (like 1/10.)
              Double-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    See also The == operand. - MQL4 programming forum

    If you want to see the correct number of digits, convert it to a string with the correct/wanted accuracy.
              question about decima of marketinfo() - MQL4 programming forum 2016.05.18

  2. NormalizeDouble does not return a string.

normalizedoubl Does anyone know whats Can't double a 0.1*3
Hussein Saade
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Hussein Saade  
William Roeder:

  1. Floating-point has an infinite number of decimals, it's your not understanding floating-point and that some numbers can't be represented exactly. (like 1/10.)
              Double-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    See also The == operand. - MQL4 programming forum

    If you want to see the correct number of digits, convert it to a string with the correct/wanted accuracy.
              question about decima of marketinfo() - MQL4 programming forum 2016.05.18

  2. NormalizeDouble does not return a string.

I am not calculating a new number; I am simply converting a string to a double. I do understand floating-point numbers and I had nightmares normalizing price with NormalizeDouble (in the beginning), but then read that it's not recommended, so switched to the MathRound() method.

I receive a STRING that I need to convert to a price I can work with. Question is simple, really: Is there a way (YES/NO), based on the code I inserted above, to convert "80.198" to an exact number representation of that string?

Questions from a "dummy" ERROR in MQL NormalizeDouble() Convert String Non-Numeric String
Keith Watford
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Hussein Saade: Question is simple, really: Is there a way (YES/NO), based on the code I inserted above, to convert "80.198" to an exact number representation of that string?

Yes.

double value=StringToDouble("80.198")

Buy if you want to print it to 3 digits

DoubleToString(value,3)
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