Re: [O] Alignment Regexp Should Recognize Currencies

2011-10-22 Thread Bastien
Hi Daniel, Daniel E. Doherty ded-...@ddoherty.net writes: I noticed that the regular expression for recognizing what columns are numeric in a table for purposes of right-aligning does not pick up dollar values with commas. For example, $23,821,415.18 would be treated as text and

Re: [O] Alignment Regexp Should Recognize Currencies

2011-10-22 Thread Daniel E . Doherty
Bastien, I thought this issue was going to die. Thanks for reviving it. I am still interested and would love to hear Carsten's views. Maybe numeric fields could have the grouping character (,) and currency symbols stripped before being used for coumputation? Regards, At Sat, 22 Oct 2011

[O] Alignment Regexp Should Recognize Currencies

2011-09-09 Thread Daniel E . Doherty
All, I noticed that the regular expression for recognizing what columns are numeric in a table for purposes of right-aligning does not pick up dollar values with commas. For example, $23,821,415.18 would be treated as text and left-aligned, which I don't believe is what one would expect. It