[fpc-pascal] "VAL" and i18n

[Jonas Maebe]

On 24 Jul 2009, at 09:55, Jonas Maebe wrote:

>> Trying to validate "1,2" (notice the comma - danish decimal  
>> separtor style) with val resulted in returning code = 2, i.e. that  
>> comma is the problem. Stepping through the code, it seem that in  
>> "fpc_Val_Real_ShortStr" the decimal separator is hardcoded to ".".
>> Is this a bug or is this just the way "val" is intended to work?
>
> It is the way val is intended to work. Use http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/floattostr.html

Oops, it's http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/strtofloat.html 
  of course. Or http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/trystrtofloat.html 
  if you don't want an exception if the conversion fails.


Jonas