RE: [flexcoders] Is String to Number conversion locale-specific?

2008-05-30 Thread Dave Glasser
Thanks, I was hoping that was the case!

Gordon Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:   
  I asked the Flash Player team, and one of the engineers told me that a period 
is always interpreted as a decimal point, regardless of the OS locale.
   
  Gordon Smith
  Adobe Flex SDK Team
   
  
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  From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave 
Glasser
 Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 7:19 AM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [flexcoders] Is String to Number conversion locale-specific?
  
   
I'd like to know what effect a computer's locale might have on String 
to Number conversion in AS3. Specifically, in locales that use a comma as a 
decimal separator rather than a period, do the various conversion methods 
(Number() function, parseNumber(), Number() class constructor) treat the comma 
as a decimal separator? None of the documentation I've read addresses this 
issue, and all of the examples use periods as the decimal separator. I suspect 
that periods in strings will always be treated as decimal separators (and 
that's the behavior I want) but I'd like to know for sure.
 
 PS, sorry that this is not a Flex-specific question, but I posted it to the 
AS3 forum on Adobe.com yesterday, and it doesn't look like it's going to get a 
response.
 
 
  
  

 


 
   




RE: [flexcoders] Is String to Number conversion locale-specific?

2008-05-30 Thread Gordon Smith
I asked the Flash Player team, and one of the engineers told me that a
period is always interpreted as a decimal point, regardless of the OS
locale.

 

Gordon Smith

Adobe Flex SDK Team

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Dave Glasser
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 7:19 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Is String to Number conversion locale-specific?

 

I'd like to know what effect a computer's locale might have on String to
Number conversion in AS3. Specifically, in locales that use a comma as a
decimal separator rather than a period, do the various conversion
methods (Number() function, parseNumber(), Number() class constructor)
treat the comma as a decimal separator? None of the documentation I've
read addresses this issue, and all of the examples use periods as the
decimal separator. I suspect that periods in strings will always be
treated as decimal separators (and that's the behavior I want) but I'd
like to know for sure.

PS, sorry that this is not a Flex-specific question, but I posted it to
the AS3 forum on Adobe.com yesterday, and it doesn't look like it's
going to get a response.



 



[flexcoders] Is String to Number conversion locale-specific?

2008-05-30 Thread Dave Glasser
I'd like to know what effect a computer's locale might have on String to Number 
conversion in AS3. Specifically, in locales that use a comma as a decimal 
separator rather than a period, do the various conversion methods (Number() 
function, parseNumber(), Number() class constructor) treat the comma as a 
decimal separator? None of the documentation I've read addresses this issue, 
and all of the examples use periods as the decimal separator. I suspect that 
periods in strings will always be treated as decimal separators (and that's the 
behavior I want) but I'd like to know for sure.

PS, sorry that this is not a Flex-specific question, but I posted it to the AS3 
forum on Adobe.com yesterday, and it doesn't look like it's going to get a 
response.