Joining variables and displaying on an LCD

[ScaleRobotics]

Sorry, the above code should be:

LCDOUT $fe, ($c0 + 4)    'moves cursor to 4th character position on bottom line
gosub printtemp


printtemp:
     LCDOUT #TempTens, #TempUnits,".",#TempDecimals  'remove line/cursor info 
return

[Navaidstech]

You know... you might have something going here. I'll explore this option as well.

Now that I think of it, the original way might work as well. I'm just worried about the size of the program (trying to fit everything on a F628) but now that I think about it, just because a variable looks long and messy on the Microcode screen, doesn't mean it will take that much space on a chip, right?

[ScaleRobotics]

That's right, looks can be deceiving.

I did a couple tests with Darrel's "How much code could a code hog ...." thread at
http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=2418
This was done with a 18F chip:

it turns out that both lines use the same amount of space:

Lcdout $fe, ($c0 +4),"98.7"

LCDOUT $fe, ($c0 +4), #TempTens, #TempUnits,".",#TempDecimals

And, if you use the gosub (in post #5) 3 times, rather than use the above line (three times), you will use about 2/3 the code space. And that's not considering forming the data into a string.

[Navaidstech]

Good stuff. Thank you for running the tests for me.
Looks like I'll have to go with the original plan as you have suggested.
No worries... I simply thought there would be a different way of doing it but I'll just have to get creative here and make efficient use of code space.

Thank you very much for all your help.