Question

I have the following,

int intMilliseconds = rawSplit % 1000;

which returns the milliseconds left from a time that i have entered, however it in very few cases returns three number (###) instead of the usual two (##).

How might i get it to always return two numbers? (##)

Any help would be great thanks !

Answer 1

It’s going to be a three-digit number any time rawSplit is a number between x,099 and x,999. The modulo operator % gives you the remainder after dividing by the right-hand operand. If you perform 1064 % 1000, the result is 64. If you perform 1548 % 1000, the result is 548.

You can change the information you’re getting — performing modulo 100, for example: 1064 % 100 -> 64 and 1548 % 100 -> 48 — but you can’t make this expression “return” two digits all the time.

From my comment below:

I guess you could use “centiseconds”; just divide your milliseconds by ten and drop the fractional part.