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From: kazim@Apple.COM (Alex Kazim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: StringToReal?
Summary: Oh, Really
Keywords: SANE, Script Mgr
Message-ID: <38084@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 24 Jan 90 19:02:37 GMT
References: <18429@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <6122@internal.Apple.COM> <1132@cf-cm.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1132@cf-cm.UUCP> ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) writes:
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>Byron Han, of Apple, writes:
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>>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
>will not be appropriate, and more fancy things will be needed from the Script
>Manager package.  

Really?  I had always thought SANE took care of this (by looking at the INTL
0 resource for the various commas 'n things).  In fact, IM Vol 5, p 302 says
SANE routines will always return the correct result regardless of the 
script.

I didn't write either SANE or Script Mgr, but we may have a bug here.  

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Alex Kazim, Apple Computer
Bo knows programming
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