Converting feet to inches

I need to conver feet to inches, in my code, I am picking up feet and inches in the input file, and need to convert it all to inches on the output file, for example, a person is 5 07, this needs to be converted to 67 inches....Any suggestions

Angel_74 wrote:
I need to conver feet to inches, in my code, I am picking up feet and inches in the input file, and need to convert it all to inches on the output file, for example, a person is 5 07, this needs to be converted to 67 inches....Any suggestionsExcuse me for being late, a just got back from a doctor's appointment.
So your project is really all about reading text from one file, and writing text to another file right? In that case, you should think about how your program handles the input. Most input comes in the form of a java.lang.String (but not always, depends on your InputStream), then your program needs to convert those String values into int values before you can use the mathematical formulas given above. Then depending on the OutputStream, you may or may not need to convert int back to String or whatever.

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jsteinmann wrote:
> I have an application that requires height in
feet/inches. Obviously php/mysql
> will have an issue with something like 6'2" because of
the ' and ". What they
> best way to handle this so I can still express it this
way... or is it not
> worth it and just use feet and inches, the words?
>
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select a group of the cells containing them
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Yvan KOENIG
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--(SCRIPT feets2inches.app]
property passed : {}
set passed to the clipboard
if passed contains return then
set my passed to my decoupe(passed, return)
else
set my passed to {passed}
end if
set tt to ""
repeat with vv in my passed
set vv to vv as text
if vv is "" then
set tt to tt & return
else
set l to my decoupe(vv, " ")
if (count of l) = 1 then (* 3' or 6 or 1/2 *)
set l1 to item 1 of l
if character -1 of l1 is in {"'", "’"} then
set nn to ((text 1 thru -2 of l1) as integer) * 12
else if l1 does not contain "/" then
set nn to l1 as integer
else
set {c, d} to my decoupe(l1, "/")
set nn to c / d
end if
else if (count of l) = 2 then (* 3' 6 or 3' 1/2 or 6 1/2 *)
set {l1, l2} to l
if (character -1 of l1) is in {"'", "’"} then
if l2 does not contain "/" then
set nn to (((text 1 thru -2 of l1) as integer) * 12) + (l2 as integer)
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set {c, d} to my decoupe(l2, "/")
set nn to (((text 1 thru -2 of l1) as integer) * 12) + (c / d)
end if
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set {c, d} to my decoupe(l2, "/")
set nn to (l1 as integer) + (c / d)
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end if
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d
set l to text items of t
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end decoupe
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