i need to represent data as percentages

[Trick Nick]

basically i go through a document count up the total number of times the
status codes appeared. eg 200 = 96 201 =8 300 = 12 etc etc. I have
counted up the total number of codes in the whole file and now must
divide by each source codes value or individual count so it would be
something like 108.to_f / 92.to_f but i get these numbers such as
0.86899 yadayadayada. How do i convert that float number now to a
representable percent such as 87%?

 

[Tim Hunter]

basically i go through a document count up the total number of times the
status codes appeared. eg 200 = 96 201 =8 300 = 12 etc etc. I have
counted up the total number of codes in the whole file and now must
divide by each source codes value or individual count so it would be
something like 108.to_f / 92.to_f but i get these numbers such as
0.86899 yadayadayada. How do i convert that float number now to a
representable percent such as 87%?

irb(main):008:0> x = 0.86899
=> 0.86899
irb(main):009:0> "%2d%%" % (x * 100.0)
=> "86%"
irb(main):010:0>



~$ ri String#%
--------------------------------------------------------------- String#%
str % arg => new_str
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Format---Uses str as a format specification, and returns the
result of applying it to arg. If the format specification contains
more than one substitution, then arg must be an Array containing
the values to be substituted. See Kernel::sprintf for details of
the format string.

"%05d" % 123 #=> "00123"
"%-5s: %08x" % [ "ID", self.id ] #=> "ID : 200e14d6"

~$

 

[Brian Candler]

irb(main):008:0> x = 0.86899
=> 0.86899
irb(main):009:0> "%2d%%" % (x * 100.0)
=> "86%"
irb(main):010:0>

Or better, if you want round-to-nearest:

irb(main):009:0> "%2.0f%%" % (x * 100)
=> "87%"
irb(main):010:0> "%2.1f%%" % (x * 100)
=> "86.9%"
irb(main):011:0> "%2.2f%%" % (x * 100)
=> "86.90%"
irb(main):012:0> "%2.3f%%" % (x * 100)
=> "86.899%"

 

[Robert Klemme]

Or better, if you want round-to-nearest:

irb(main):009:0> "%2.0f%%" % (x * 100)
=> "87%"
irb(main):010:0> "%2.1f%%" % (x * 100)
=> "86.9%"
irb(main):011:0> "%2.2f%%" % (x * 100)
=> "86.90%"
irb(main):012:0> "%2.3f%%" % (x * 100)
=> "86.899%"

In that case you can do "%.1f%%" % (x * 100), i.e. you do not need
the number before the dot. This number is for fixing the length of
the whole expression:

irb(main):001:0> "%.2f" % 1.2345
=> "1.23"
irb(main):002:0> "%10.2f" % 1.2345
=> " 1.23"
irb(main):003:0> "%1.2f" % 1.2345
=> "1.23"
irb(main):004:0> "%0.2f" % 1.2345
=> "1.23"
irb(main):005:0> "%5.2f" % 1.2345
=> " 1.23"

Kind regards

robert