1. RE: The Little 'e' Quirk
um, genius, did you ever think that value() stops at an invalid
character? in the case of -45.6e-, it tries to evaluate the part after
the e. In the case of -45.6a, it just stops evaluating there
2. RE: The Little 'e' Quirk
sephiroth _ wrote:
> um, genius, did you ever think that value() stops at an invalid
> character? in the case of -45.6e-, it tries to evaluate the part after
> the e. In the case of -45.6a, it just stops evaluating there
>
>
um, um, um,
did you ever consider a career in diplomacy? he he.
Please see my next post "hey wait a minute...."
Good luck with it.
--Al
3. RE: The Little 'e' Quirk
Chris,
A good idea, but....
We still need support for hex characters.
Many countries use commas and points in ways different from the USA: =
many Spanish countries (correct me if I'm wrong) would write a million as =
1.000.000,00; Japan counts by 4s instead of 3s and may randomly insert a =
kanji (Chinese-origin character) as a shorthand.=20
I also seriously doubt that my revisions are complete enough to publish =
into a library. There is no support for date/time conversions, not to =
mention the different conventions used there.
I am interested, however, to see how many people have come up with their =
own versions of value or get to suite localized needs. If there are =
enough different revisions out there, it would prove a good starting point =
for a locale library incorporating all of these. But if it's just me and =
a handful of others, I'll keep it to myself unless someone specifically =
asks for it.
Michael J. Sabal
>>> bensler at mailops.com 04/27/01 03:18PM >>>
Michael,
To make your routine non-country specific, why don't you modify it to =
ignore ANY characters until it finds numerical ones..
This could be useful for other things too. It would extract the first=20
instance of a numeric from any place within a string.
Chris
4. RE: The Little 'e' Quirk
Sometime over the ether ...
>> um, genius, did you ever think that value() stops at an invalid ...
>did you ever consider a career in diplomacy? he he.
/me with bigger he he and laughs:
Diplomacy is over-rated. Informative exchange of ideas on a level playing
field is way better. Take the rough with the smooth. Never forget that
the Internet is like the TV. If what you see/hear/otherwise is stuff you
don't want then switch off / logout / jackout / offline or filter as desired.
FP
