Decimal Separator

[Klaus Major]

Bon jour Thierry,

> Hi Igor,
>
> I'm working on the problem to know the decimal separator defined in 
> the system, on MacOS X and W2K.
>
> I've found your mail in the list, but no reply to your question.
>
> If you had any answer, please could you share it ?
>
> Thanks.
> Regards.
>
> Thierry.
>
>> Is there a way to find out what character the user has selected in
>> their system as the 'decimal separator'? How about the 'thousands
>> separator'?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Igor de Oliveira Couto

don't know what solution Igor miht have, but use 2 little funtions to 
workaround
the german "," decimal separator:

function ohnekomma xyz  ## german for without_comma :-)
   repelace "," with "." in xyz
   return xyz
end ohnekomma

and use it for calculating things:
...
put ohnekomma(fld 1) + 10.3 into the_result
...

function mitkomma xyz  ## with_comma :-)
   repelace "." with "," in xyz
   return xyz
end mitkomma

and this for display purposes:
...
put mitkomma(the_result) into fld "german numbers"
...

Of course you will have to know the currently used decimal separator
to use it...

But this will cover europe and almost every english speaking countries
i think... (?)


Hope that helps...


Au revoir

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
www.major-k.de