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[chenks]

any javascript experts here?
i've got a script that gets the numbers from a colum in a table, and then calculates the total and the average.
this works fine, but i want to add the % symbol at the end of it and can't work out the correct syntax (i know a javascript a bit to get by, but not enough).

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$(function () {
    var BreakdownFTF = 0,
        col10= $("[id*=col10]").filter(function(){
            return parseFloat( $(this).text() ) !== 0
        })
    col10.each(function () {
        BreakdownFTF = BreakdownFTF + parseFloat($(this).html());
    });
    $("[id*=BreakdownFTF]").html(BreakdownFTF.toFixed(2));
    $("[id*=AvgBreakdownFTF]").html((BreakdownFTF/col10.length).toFixed(0));
});

the result of the script is displayed in the HTML using

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<label id="AvgBreakdownFTF"/>

[Weaver]

I think you just add a % by doing
       existingvalue + '%'
So
    $("[id*=AvgBreakdownFTF]").html((BreakdownFTF/col10.length).toFixed(0) + '%');
});

[chenks]

yeah that's what i though too.
but that didn't seem to display the symbol, it's also didn't error either.

edit - actually maybe i had a typo the first time, as that is now working correctly.

[Alex Atkin UK]

Its easy to trip up when things are encased in multiple brackets.

I sometimes spend hours trying to figure out why something isn't working just to find out its the wrong side of a curly bracket, or one is missing.

[sevenlayermuddle]

I have spent most of my working life, and my retirement life so far, writing software.

Once, I was envious of those who unswervingly knew the rules of operator precedence.   I even tried to learn these rules myself.   Then I figured out... why bother?   Just add brackets, most languages allow them.

Same goes for curly brackets, to create scope of code.  Often it is implicit, so the brackets can be omitted.  Until of course, somebody later adds another statement which alters code flow, rendering the brackets necessary after all. So, my view, use them, even if not needed.

I am sure somebody will be along soon, probably a cousin of the people with whom I worked that always knew order of precedence.   They will point out that, in above, I have referred to braces and parenthesis as if they were brackets.

[burakkucat]

I am sure somebody will be along soon, . . .  They will point out that, in above, I have referred to braces and parenthesis as if they were brackets.

The pedantic cat silently passes by . . .