>Can the following be done without an intermediate variable?
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>As one of the first sample application in class, we made a currency calculator. The command button was to take the numbers from two text boxes, multiply (or divide) them, and place the result into a third text box.
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>The content of the first two textboxes, of course, had to be converted. IIRC, I did this with the method System.Double.Parse(). I assigned the multiplication to a variable, declared with:
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>Double x;
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>So, the calculation was something like:
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>x = System.Double.Parse(TxtExchangeRate.Text) * System.Double.Parse(TxtAmount.Text)
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>Then I saved x.ToString() to the result, something like this:
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>txtResult.Text = x.ToString()
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>However, we didn't manage to do the same without an intermediate variable. Is this possible?

Hi Hilmar,
Yes possible and at first it seems unbelieveable what you might do similarly:

txtResult.Text = 
 (Double.Parse(TxtExchangeRate.Text) * Double.Parse(TxtAmount.Text)).ToString();

You could also do this:

123.ToString();

:)

Cetin