Very nice, many thanks. I'm curious as to why this has not come up before. Any program getting data from a screen or from a file could contain numbers in this format.
Thanks again. On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 17:57, Ricardo Moran <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, ignore my last message, this new change set I'm attaching is a little > nicer. It doesn't add an unnecessary SqNumberParser subclass and it lets you > write something like this: > Number readFrom: '3,14' decimalPoint: $, > > I also tried configuring the decimal point with a preference but the result > was a little dangerous because new code using the wrong decimal point > wouldn't compile, so I think this is a reasonable good solution to your > problem. I hope it helps. > Cheers > Richo > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Ricardo Moran <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I don't know if there is already a way of doing this, but I attached a >> simple hack that lets you read commas as decimal points by executing >> something like this: >> (DecimalCommaNumberParser on: '3,14') nextNumber -> 3.14 >> I know this is not elegant, but it works. There seems to be some other >> places where the decimal point is hardcoded. Maybe we should make >> SqNumberParser take the decimal point as a parameter. Or have a preference >> to choose that. I don't know... >> Cheers >> Richo >> >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:53 PM, John Toohey <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Without changing the OS locale, is there an easy was to have Pharo >>> recognize a comma as a decimal point, i.e. '2,13' asNumber -> 2,13. I >>> am receiving number from a Seaside app, in this format, and I need to >>> convert them before storing them in Postgres. Currently '2,12' >>> asNumber gives 2. >>> >>> -- >>> ~JT >>> >> > > -- ~JT
