Anssi Seppälä 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?
dotcomma=:(',.',a.) {~ ('.,',a.)&i.
_1234 ". dotcomma '3.141.592'
3141592
For that matter:
>:&.(_&". :.":)&.dotcomma '1.234,56'
1235,56
That said: in my experience this kind of "internationalization"
tends to make data non-portable. What really matters is not
the nationality of the system reading the data but of the
system which generated the data. In complicated self-identifying
file formats, that can work, but for ordinary text it's probably
best to use a well established default and leave the treatment
of the other cases to human judgement (which is what J does).
--
Raul
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