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function to change metric measurements
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i requre a little bit of guidance and help to right a simple function I have a value in milimeters which i want to pass to a function followed by a string or value to show that i want the result converting in to a) meters & cm - lets call it m b) cms & mm - lets call it cm c) mm - lets call it mm even though i passing the mm's to the function as a number i wish it to display it as a string thus 1234,m i wish to return as 1 m 23.4 cm or 1234,cm will return 123 cm 4 mms or 123.4 cms or 1234 mm will return 1234 mms I know this should be easy but i just cant seem how i should structure my login.. was trying to use mod and fix .. i cant see why i can get my head round it.. as i done something similar for inches and passing the factor of the inches .... ie 1/8th 1/16th etc to it.. to display feet inches and denominator... please help.. |
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in b1: =convm(a1,"m") Function ConvM(ByVal metric As Long, munits As String) As String Select Case munits Case Is = "m" cm = (metric Mod 1000) / 10 m = Int(metric / 1000) ConvM = Str(m) & " m" & Str(cm) & " cm" Case Is = "cm" cm = metric / 10 ConvM = Str(cm) & " cm" Case Is = "mm" mm = metric ConvM = Str(mm) & " mm" Case Else ConvM = "Invalid Units" End Select End Function "devo" wrote: Hi i requre a little bit of guidance and help to right a simple function I have a value in milimeters which i want to pass to a function followed by a string or value to show that i want the result converting in to a) meters & cm - lets call it m b) cms & mm - lets call it cm c) mm - lets call it mm even though i passing the mm's to the function as a number i wish it to display it as a string thus 1234,m i wish to return as 1 m 23.4 cm or 1234,cm will return 123 cm 4 mms or 123.4 cms or 1234 mm will return 1234 mms I know this should be easy but i just cant seem how i should structure my login.. was trying to use mod and fix .. i cant see why i can get my head round it.. as i done something similar for inches and passing the factor of the inches .... ie 1/8th 1/16th etc to it.. to display feet inches and denominator... please help.. |
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I am not sure you are giving us the right example of what you want.. 1234m does not equal to 1 M 23.4 CM nor does 1234cm = 123 cm 4 mm and vise versa.. I did take what I think you meant and put this into a formula (it's not pretty, but it works) and you don't have to set up a macro or fuction, so that if you put: 1234mm will convert to cm and mm (123 cm 4 mm) 1234cm will convert it to M and cm (1 M 23.4 cm) you can play around with this. =IF(RIGHT(A1,2)="mm",QUOTIENT(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2),10)&" cm "&MOD(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2),10)&" mm",IF(RIGHT(A1,2)="cm",QUOTIENT(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2),1000)&" M "&MOD(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2),1000)/10&" cm")) -- Bearacade ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bearacade's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=35016 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=559040 |
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The base units are mm to be converted to m, cm or left as mm.
So we always start with 1234 mm =1.234 m or 1m 23.4 cm = 123 cm 4mm (123.4 cm) "Bearacade" wrote: I am not sure you are giving us the right example of what you want.. 1234m does not equal to 1 M 23.4 CM nor does 1234cm = 123 cm 4 mm and vise versa.. I did take what I think you meant and put this into a formula (it's not pretty, but it works) and you don't have to set up a macro or fuction, so that if you put: 1234mm will convert to cm and mm (123 cm 4 mm) 1234cm will convert it to M and cm (1 M 23.4 cm) you can play around with this. =IF(RIGHT(A1,2)="mm",QUOTIENT(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2),10)&" cm "&MOD(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2),10)&" mm",IF(RIGHT(A1,2)="cm",QUOTIENT(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2),1000)&" M "&MOD(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2),1000)/10&" cm")) -- Bearacade ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bearacade's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=35016 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=559040 |
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1234cm = 12m 34 cm NOT 1m 23.4 cm.
"Bearacade" wrote: I am not sure you are giving us the right example of what you want.. 1234m does not equal to 1 M 23.4 CM nor does 1234cm = 123 cm 4 mm and vise versa.. I did take what I think you meant and put this into a formula (it's not pretty, but it works) and you don't have to set up a macro or fuction, so that if you put: 1234mm will convert to cm and mm (123 cm 4 mm) 1234cm will convert it to M and cm (1 M 23.4 cm) you can play around with this. =IF(RIGHT(A1,2)="mm",QUOTIENT(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2),10)&" cm "&MOD(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2),10)&" mm",IF(RIGHT(A1,2)="cm",QUOTIENT(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2),1000)&" M "&MOD(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2),1000)/10&" cm")) -- Bearacade ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bearacade's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=35016 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=559040 |
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Thanks for helping us out..
Yeah that seems to work really well.. Much appreciated... ! "devo" wrote in message ... Hi i requre a little bit of guidance and help to right a simple function I have a value in milimeters which i want to pass to a function followed by a string or value to show that i want the result converting in to a) meters & cm - lets call it m b) cms & mm - lets call it cm c) mm - lets call it mm even though i passing the mm's to the function as a number i wish it to display it as a string thus 1234,m i wish to return as 1 m 23.4 cm or 1234,cm will return 123 cm 4 mms or 123.4 cms or 1234 mm will return 1234 mms I know this should be easy but i just cant seem how i should structure my login.. was trying to use mod and fix .. i cant see why i can get my head round it.. as i done something similar for inches and passing the factor of the inches ... ie 1/8th 1/16th etc to it.. to display feet inches and denominator... please help.. |
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