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Re: Currency Numbers


  • Subject: Re: Currency Numbers
  • From: Yvan KOENIG <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:38:08 +0200


Le 20 juin 2006, à 04:35, Nigel Garvey a écrit :


If I switch my machine over to French and French numbers, it's only in
strings that the decimal point is a comma. It still appears as a dot in
reals in Script Editor. Is that true for French users or have I missed
something?

NG


Hello

You are perfectly right Nigel.
This is this difference that I tried to point in my late mesage:

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	Objet: 	Rép : Currency Numbers
	Date: 	19 juin 2006 19:49:18 GMT+02:00
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Le 19 juin 2006, à 18:34, Adam Bell a écrit :

…

The passed handlers are perfect with systems using the period as decimal separator.

In France we use the comma as decimal separator so,

set the rounding_value to "005"
set the rounding_value to ("." & the rounding_value) as number
fails with this kind of message:

"can't set .005 as number"

we must code:

set the rounding_value to "005"
set the rounding_value to ("," & the rounding_value) as number

and the result is : 0.005 (yes, with a period !!!)

Yvan KOENIG


So it is really difficult to code this kind of number crunching.

The first thing I do when I need to do that is to grab the decimal separator with this code

set separator to character -2 of ((1 / 2) as text)
or
set separator to character -2 of (0.5 as text)

Then, when I need to work with strings, I use the variable separator.

It's a bit cumbersome.

I assume that this is why several Smile's features are available only when the system is using the period as decimal separator.

Yvan KOENIG

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