Determine decimal seperator on system

[Garrett]

I'd like to know if there's a way to determine the decimal separator for any given system and platform that my program may be working on.

When doing division I need to find out what character is being used as the decimal character. I know in the USA we use a period and from what I understand, in the UK a comma is used.

Does anyone know if there is a way to determine what character is being used for the decimal?

Thanks,
~Garrett

[dickey]

Hello Garrett,

I hate to see a question go 43 views without an attempt to answer it.

You can query, delete from, and add to the Windows Registry from within Revolution by accessing reg.exe via the shell (a link I found quite useful was http://commandwindows.com/reg.htm). Reg.exe (the cmd line registry editor is nearly always present with the exception of some MS 'Home' branded versions of Windows. Where it is not present there is no barrier from installing it with your app. From memory - I believe the separators like decimal or digit grouping are located under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International path in the registry.

For OSX I am unsure.

I hope this helps a little.

Kind regards,

Andrew

[Garrett]

Thanks a bunch Dickey

[bn]

Garrett,

since nobody is coming up with a better solution for the mac you could do it with a little applescript:

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   put "set userDecimalSeparator to item 2 of (1.1 as string)" & return & "return userDecimalSeparator" into WhatIsTheSeparator
   do WhatIsTheSeparator as applescript
   put the result into tDecimalSeparatorMac
   replace quote with empty in tDecimalSeparatorMac
   -- tDecimalSeparatorMac now contains the user's decimal separator as in his system preferences
   -- now you can test for that and adjust the thousand separator accordingly

As far as I know there is either a "," or a "." as decimal separator. And the thousand separator is either "." or ",".
regards
Bernd

[Garrett]

Thanks Bernd