Feel free to provide a patch! 

Gary

On Jun 29, 2012, at 6:12, "Olivier Sechet (JIRA)" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Olivier Sechet created CLI-226:
> ----------------------------------
> 
>             Summary: createNumber() in TypeHandler cannot work with some 
> Locale
>                 Key: CLI-226
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLI-226
>             Project: Commons CLI
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.2
>            Reporter: Olivier Sechet
> 
> 
> The {{createNumber()}} method in the {{TypeHandler}} class expects the 
> decimal separator to be a dot ({{'.'}}). However the dot is not used in all 
> the languages as a decimal separator. Most of the European countries, Russia 
> and a lot of others countries uses a comma ({{','}}).
> 
> With the corresponding {{Locale}}, the {{createNumber()}} method fails, 
> throwing an exception.
> 
> For example:
> {code:title=Type.java|borderStyle=solid}
> public class Type {
> 
>    public static void main(final String[] args) {
>        java.util.Locale.setDefault(java.util.Locale.GERMANY);
>        String text = java.text.NumberFormat.getNumberInstance().format(12.34);
>        Number nb = org.apache.commons.cli.TypeHandler.createNumber(text);
>        System.out.println(nb);
>    }
> }
> {code}
> 
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