This is a localization issue and as in other systems is maintained by application code, not system code, and definitely not language.
In other words you have formatters and parsers that maintain locale information do corresponding conversions to and from the "standard" internal form. It could actually be a good area for a new localization addon. --- Anssi Seppälä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will there be a day when it is possible modify the operation so that > dots are ignored and commas are respected as decimal delimiters? > Anssi > > At 18:20 6.11.2006, you wrote: > >_1234 ". '3,141,592' > >3141592 > > > >Commas WITHIN numbers are ignored. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link Talk more and pay less. Vonage can save you up to $300 a year on your phone bill. Sign up now. http://www.vonage.com/startsavingnow/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
