[chaley]

Originally Posted by davidfor

And here was me thinking of doing:

program:
minutes = divide(raw_field('#words'),310);
hours = divide(minutes, 60);
hours = list_item(hours,0,'.');
minutes = subtract(minutes, multiply(hours,60));
minutes = format_number(minutes, '02,.0f');
strcat(hours,':',minutes)

Ugly, but it seems to work. I'd probably combine a couple of lines, but, separating them helps the debugging.

But, I've wanted some of your new functions before. So, I'm happy to see them.

This is a very interesting use of list_item. Cool. It got me thinking about other unusual ways to solve the problem using the period as a separator. I came up with this

program:
	fractional_hours = 3.6982;
	re_group(
		fractional_hours,
		'(.*)(\..*)',
		'{$}:', 
		"program: format_number(multiply($, 60), '02.0f')"
	)

This works as long as there really is a period in the number.