VectorScript: decimal separator from System settings

[Petri]

Both VS and record formats ignore the System level decimal separator definition.

The decimal separator is mathematically a radix point.

[snip]

The choice of symbol for the decimal separator affects the choice of symbol for the thousands separator. Consequently the latter is treated in this article as well.Countries where a comma is used to mark the radix point include:

Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada (French-speaking), Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Faroes, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg (uses both separators officially), Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa (officially, but dot point is commonly used in business and science), Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator)

Plenty of unhappy people, including a user of mine...

Surely this is easy to fix?

[Pat Stanford]

Just figured this out as a way to determine the decimal separator if you need to work across multiple languages/regions.

Tested on Mac OSX 10.9. Not tested on Windows or any other operating systems.

Procedure Test;

var	S1:String;

Function DecimalSeparator: String;
Begin
	If Len(Substring(Num2Str(4,22/7),'.',1))=1 then DecimalSeparator:='.' else DecimalSeparator:=',';
End;

Begin
Message(DecimalSeparator);
End;

Run(Test);

[Benson Shaw]

Whoa, Pat - Way to dig out an old thread! With a great question from Petri, no less. You have probably been mulling this since 2007.

I'm no scriptor, just curious. Disregard if you don't have time:

I see that Function Len returns the length of the specified string value.

Can you explain that (4,22/7) element?

Thx

-B