Currency and percentage in numeric evaluation

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I just found in my stack folder a currency number formatting stack.
There is no author, no about, no idea who made it. 
But it came from my external stacks.

The idea is that if you can make a parser to make a currency format of any 
kind, this process
can be easily reversed to do the opposite...

So who made that stack? It's called "Currency.mc"

cheers
Xavier

On 11.04.2005 15:07:14 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
>Hi Richard:
>
>I put the following into the msg box
>
>put "12%" into holder
>put holder is a number
>
>The above returns returns false
>
>Regards .... Bob
>
>
>
>On Apr 10, 2005, at 9:00 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> I need to evaluate a large number of short strings to determine whether
>> they are numeric.  Some of these are percentages, and include the "%",
>> and others are currency and can contain "$". the Euro, Yen, or any
>> number of other signs.
>>
>> With dates we have a convenient test:  try to convert it, and if it
>> fails it will tell you why.
>>
>> But we have no such convenience with percentages and currency.  So what
>> is the most efficient (heck, I'd settle for reasonable efficient) way
>> to
>> determine if a string is numeric given the wide range of currency
>> formats in common use?
>>
>> --
>>   Richard Gaskin
>>   Fourth World Media Corporation
>
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