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Hi All,

This is related to a question that I posed yesterday got an answer to and it worked! (thanks PK Fox & Original Griff) The problem is now that I am reading a value from a frequency counter of around 1.8432 MHz I need to convert this to hertz: 1843200 Hz and multiply by six to give 11059200 HZ I then need to send this out to the DUT.
The things are bothering me about this converting from a String to a Long, I can read in 1.8432 MHz and then use substring to get rid of the MHz (via blah.Substring(0, blah.Length-4). Can Decimal.Parse which I used yesterday for converting Amps to mA be used again bearing in mind I want to multiply by 6?
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Yes - decimal.Parse converts it to a decimal value.
So multiply the decimal by 6 (or 6000 to convert from A to mA) and cast it as a long:
VB
Dim mA As Long = CLng(Math.Truncate(Decimal.Parse("1.8432") * 6 * 1000))
 
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glennPattonWork3 10-Apr-14 9:40am    
Thanks for that, I will try it! Mind you you start to get frustrated when you see you question poping up in Google....
glennPattonWork3 10-Apr-14 10:01am    
Given it a go it does what I was finding earlier was problems getting the String to a Decimal so I could do the multiply by 6
glennPattonWork3 10-Apr-14 10:12am    
FreqResult1823_Trimmed = System.Convert.ToDecimal(result1823A_Trimmed) appears to round to the decimal point.
glennPattonWork3 10-Apr-14 10:19am    
Ah! CDec my old nemesis....
glennPattonWork3 10-Apr-14 10:21am    
Accepting and closing question as I think I have a solution!!! Have a 5 as you got thinking the right way!

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