OpenEuphoria

Re: real world value flaw

• Posted by Robert Pilkington <pilking at BELLATLANTIC.NET> Mar 12, 1999
• 581 views

>>>>>>
>    - you wanted to 'get' two values seperated by a comma in sequence-form:
>      Insert this before your 'value (s)' statement.....
>                                                            s = '{' & s '}'
>
>    - you wanted to 'get' the value 1.234 as one floating point value:
>     (a comma is the european alternative to seperate the floating point
>part from the integer value)
>     Insert this before your 'value (s)' statement.......
><<<<<
>
>Sorry, Ralf.  You are incorrect.  And I wasn't doing this just to bother
>Robert or anyone else with a "fluke".
>
>I have some stats file that I'm trying to parse into values.  Its currently
>in the 100s.  Now, when the stats go over 1,000, I wonder if the service
>(which is not under my control) will use commas, which is the US way of
>separating thousands.  If it did, I wondered if Euphoria would be able to
>handle it.  The answer is, unfortunately, no.

Only half true: Download COMMAS.ZIP off of the archives. (Shameless plug.)

It can handle commas in input like "1,000" and add commas to output like
"1000". It also correctly handles numbers like "1000.05".

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