Fun with nummberFormat

[Bob Sneidar]

Yes I know. I was remarking that you can put virtually anything in the numberFormat and it will pad with zero's. It was an issue with me because I have a validation called formatNumber, where when setting it up the user can enter a format string. I then wanted to test if it was a valid one. I suspected I would get some kind of error either when I set the numberFormat, or when I did the math on something. Instead of an error I got the result padded with zero's. 

I resolved it at any rate by deleting all characters in "#.0+-" and then checking to see if the format string was empty. If it was not then there was an error in the formatString. 

Bob


On Feb 14, 2012, at 1:31 PM, stephen barncard wrote:

> try
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> set the numberFormat to "#"
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> On 14 February 2012 12:39, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:
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>> set the numberFormat to "blah"; put 1 + 1
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> Stephen Barncard
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