# How to properly use Number -\> text **URL:** \ **Category:** EcoCAR EV Challenge\ **Created:** [March 7, 2025, 5:02am UTC](https://forum.rtmaps.com/t/how-to-properly-use-number-text/165 "2025-03-07T05:02:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Adi\_Kumar](https://forum.rtmaps.com/user_avatar/forum.rtmaps.com/adi_kumar/32/92_2.png) [@Adi\_Kumar](https://forum.rtmaps.com/u/Adi_Kumar)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2025, 5:02am UTC](https://forum.rtmaps.com/t/how-to-properly-use-number-text/165/1 "2025-03-07T05:02:32Z")
Im trying to convert an int to a string. Am I implementing this incorrectly? ![image](https://forum.rtmaps.com/uploads/default/original/1X/82a65c650453d3b58943445c6731767f4114a94d.png) ---
**Author:** ![Adi\_Kumar](https://forum.rtmaps.com/user_avatar/forum.rtmaps.com/adi_kumar/32/92_2.png) [@Adi\_Kumar](https://forum.rtmaps.com/u/Adi_Kumar)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2025, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.rtmaps.com/t/how-to-properly-use-number-text/165/2 "2025-03-07T05:04:30Z")
I wasnt able to upload all the images but what is happening is that I have a number generator, and I’m passing its value through a conv2Text and this is the dataviewer output. Im using the default setting with the conv2text. The number generator had pvalue set at 7 ---
**Author:** ![llemke](https://forum.rtmaps.com/user_avatar/forum.rtmaps.com/llemke/32/53_2.png) [@llemke](https://forum.rtmaps.com/u/llemke)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.rtmaps.com/t/how-to-properly-use-number-text/165/4 "2025-03-10T11:58:24Z")
As the documentation for the “Format” property states, the Conv2Text component uses the same formatting as in the standard C specifications. My guess is your number is outputting a float, and your format property is set to the default %d which is for integers. So depending on your goal, you would either need to change the type output of the number generator, or change the format to %f for float.