You've done a fine job. Keep up the good work Don't forget to market your
programming to as many web sites as you can. Also, take the time to e-mail
companies with a positive message of metrication thanking them for
supporting the metric system.
Thanks for taking the time to program your ASP page. (I can completely
empathize with what you've done--I used to take programming classes in
college.)
Darrick Priest
USMA Member
----- Original Message -----
From: Nat Hager III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 6:08 AM
Subject: [USMA:12338] RE: Please check out a (metric) utility that I am
building...
>
> For someone who reads most of his news off the Web, that would be an
> incredibly useful software utility. Something that would grab all
incoming
> .html text to a web browser, scan for words such as "foot", "feet", "ft",
> etc, parse the number immediately before and multiply by 0.305, then
return
> the result to the text stream sensibly rounded and followed by the letter
> "m". All completely transparent to the user.
>
> Same with "mile", "yard", "inch", "gallon", "pound", etc.
>
> Nat
>
> > For lack of other things to do, I decided that as I am learning to
program
> > ASP pages, I might as well try to do something useful. I decided
> > to write a
> > plain text conversion utility that will take keyed in text in
other-units
> > and convert them to an internationally acceptable unit (ie, metric).
> > I decided not to allow metric to other-unit conversions (as that would
not
> > be very useful to me ;)
> >
> > Currently it can handle input like : 5 miles; 4 gallons 6 ounces; etc.
> > (lets see which units I am missing...)
> >
> > It can handle fractional parts only if you use a plus sign in between
the
> > whole number and the fractional number (if a whole number exists), like
:
> > 1/2 gallon; 5+9/16 inches; etc.
> >
> > I am still working out some bugs, and was hoping that a few of you would
> > check it out and let me know what you think. It is a bare-bones
> > page at this
> > point and I will make it look pretty later.
> >
> > http://www.rossmania.com/convertunits.asp
> >
> > Thank you for your time,
> >
> > Ross DeMeyere
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > DeMeyere Design Incorporated
> > 1951 McKinley ST NE
> > Minneapolis, MN 55418-4816
> >
> > tel:612.789.2052
> > fax:612.789.8028
> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.demeyere.com/
> >
> >
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