My answer to most questions: roll your own, you'll be done faster :-)
function StripSeparators(s:string):string;
var i:Integer;
begin
I := AnsiPos(',',s);
While I <> 0 do
Begin
System.Delete(s,I,1);
I := AnsiPos(',',s);
End;
Result := s;
end;
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of rinke hoekstra
> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 12:23 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: reading string numbers with thousand separators
>
> Hi List,
>
> In my app, I'm trying to read strings which should be converted to floats
> or integers.
> However, the strings contain thousand separators, and most build-in
> functions of delphi
> cannot seem to handle those (FloatToStr, Val, etc).
>
> Of course I could build some routine with pos(...) etc stripping the
> thousand separators
> from the strings before passing them into a converting routine, but I
> cannot imagine that
> there isn't a simple delphi function which CAN handle thousand separators
> when trying
> to convert from strings to numbers.
>
> which function am i overlooking?
>
> thanks, Rinke
>
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