On 11/12/2010, at 3:54 PM, Ken Thomases wrote: > On Dec 10, 2010, at 9:38 PM, WT wrote: > >> thank you both for the very fast response. > > You're welcome. > >> Is that behavior of NSScanner documented anywhere? I read the docs but don't >> remember coming across it. I'm a bit stunned. What's the point of having a >> scanner if it ignores certain key aspects of the locale? > > It's not ignoring the locale. There are just different ways of formatting > numbers, and NSScanner just wasn't designed to understand some of them. > Group separators are more relevant to human-readable numbers than > computer-readable ones. > > I would venture to say that NSScanner is an object-oriented analog to the > scanf family of functions from the standard C library. Those do not > understand group separators, either. It's pretty much the norm for > number-scanning library routines. It's also the norm for library routines to > not include group separators when formatting numbers for output. (e.g. > -[NSNumber stringValue]) > > Regards, > Ken
Hi, sorry if I'm way off the mark here, but wouldn't the best thing to use be NSScanner *scanner = [NSScanner localizedScannerWithString:[sender stringValue]];? Then you don't have to worry about the specifics of number formatting in various locales. Please let me know if I've missed the point. Ron _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
