Re: API to convert string to number?
Re: API to convert string to number?
- Subject: Re: API to convert string to number?
- From: "E. Wing" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:21:18 -0800
The string isn't coming from a standard Cocoa/UI widget so the string
is unsanitized. So I don't know if I can get NSNumberFormatter into
the picture. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Eric
On 2/27/07, I. Savant <email@hidden> wrote:
In this particular case, an NSNumberFormatter attached to your
field in Interface Builder will take care of this automatically. Read
the documentation for more details.
--
I.S.
On Feb 27, 2007, at 7:08 PM, E. Wing wrote:
> So NSScanner seems to be the closest to what I need. But it fails to
> respond to the NSThousandsSeparator. Looking over the documentation,
> there is only mention of the decimal separator. Is it possible to get
> it to handle the other separators?
>
> Basically, what I want is when the user types 1,000.50 (in en-US), I
> want the value 1000.5. But I actually get 1.0 in this case.
>
> Here is the code I'm using:
> float converted_value;
> NSScanner* the_scanner = [NSScanner
> localizedScannerWithString:user_string];
> BOOL did_find_number = [the_scanner scanFloat:&converted_value];
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
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