[fpc-pascal] Currency symbol wrong location

[Leonardo M. Ramé]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Ludo Brands <ludo.brands at free.fr>
> To: 'FPC-Pascal users discussions' <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2012 12:54 PM
> Subject: RE : [fpc-pascal] Currency symbol wrong location
> 
>>  This is as per doc?
>> 
>>  http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/format.html
>> 
>>  FloatToStrF(Argument,ffGeneral,Precision,3)
>> 
>>  M    Currency format. the next argument in the var{Args} 
>>  array must be a
>>  floating point value. The argument is converted to a decimal 
>>  string using currency notation. This means that fixed-point 
>>  notation is used, but that the currency symbol is appended. 
>>  If precision is specified, then then it overrides the 
>>  CurrencyDecimals global variable used in the FloatToStrF
>> 
>>      In short, the M specifier formats it's argument as follows:
>> 
>>      FloatToStrF(Argument,ffCurrency,9999,Precision)
>> 
>>  Note the /append/  :-)
>> 
> 
> Then there seems to be a contradiction in the doc. The position of the
> currency symbol in FloatToStrF with ffCurrency is determined by
> CurrencyFormat. 
> 
>   CurrencyFormat:=0;
>   s:=FloatToStrF(123.25,ffCurrency,5,2);
>   s:=Format('%m', [123.25]);
> 
> Both calls return $123.25 in s.
> 
> Ludo
> 


Thanks, that worked. The trick was CurrencyFormat := 0;
 
Leonardo M. Ramé
http://leonardorame.blogspot.com