Re: Adding stringgrid values

Posted by Joey p12386 on May 15, 2007

In Reply to Adding stringgrid values posted by Sarah-Jayne on May 12, 2007

: This is probably a very simple question for you, but I am very new to Delphi!
: I have a series of values within a stringgrid, in cells [1,1], [2,1] and [3,1]. I want to add these together to calculate the total value within these cells, and display this in cell [4,1].
: I have tried various IntToStr, StrToInt combinations but as of yet have failed, instead of calculating the total values, the values are simply put together e.g. 1+2+3 = 123 instead of the correct answer of 6.
: Help would be very much appreciated!!!
: Thanks a bunch, Sarah-Jayne.

Hi there,

Here is the code that should solve the problem.

StringGrid1.Cells[4,1] := IntToStr( StrToInt( StringGrid1.Cells[1,1] ) +
  StrToInt( StringGrid1.Cells[2,1] ) + StrToInt( StringGrid1.Cells[3,1] ) );

You should just note that StrToInt isn't a very great function as if there is any input other that characters 0 - 9 then an error will be thrown.

You could use StrToIntDef which is the same but uses a default value if the input is invalid.

StringGrid1.Cells[4,1] := IntToStr( StrToIntDef( StringGrid1.Cells[1,1], 0 ) +
  StrToIntDef( StringGrid1.Cells[2,1], 0 ) + StrToIntDef( StringGrid1.Cells[3,1], 0 ) );

So if your user types 'Bob' instead of a number it will return the string for '0 or any other integer you give for the second value.

Hope this helps ^_^

Joey

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