Re: [Gretl-users] decimal separator bug
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Allin Cottrell wrote:
A second element of inconsistency is that when the "locale
decimal
separator" option is turned on, we currently accept (in fact,
insist on) use of the locale separator in dialog boxes that call
for simple numeric input...
One more small point: IF we don't decide to get rid of the locale
decimal separator altogether, such purely numeric dialogs could be
modified to accept either ',' or '.' in locales that don't use the
decimal point. (Since there's no alternative use for ',' in such
dialogs.)
Algorithm: internally, replace ',' with '.' in the input string
then parse the number out of the string using the C locale.
Allin.