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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon Watte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: StringToReal?
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Date: 23 Jan 90 21:02:01 GMT
References: <18429@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <6122@internal.Apple.COM> <1132@cf-cm.UUCP>
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <1132@cf-cm.UUCP> ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) writes:
>Byron Han, of Apple, writes:

>>In the SANE package, there is a routine, Str2Num which converts a string 
>>to a number.

>There's a problem with this, surely. Str2Num expects the decimal point to be
>a point (full stop). In some countries, it may be a comma etc, so Str2Num

Well, you could always parse the string, look for the "comma, point,
whatever" symbol and change it for the dot. I believe the symbol(s)
to look for are easily obtainable from itl or similar resources.
(No IM nor TechNotes on this Unix system :-)

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