The attached patch is a suggested implementation of TryStrToFloat, which (I hope) improves compatibility with Delphi Colin -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: trystrtofloat.patch URL: <http://lists.freepascal.org/pipermail/fpc-devel/attachments/20050116/31e6e194/attachment.ksh>