RE: Converting a string to a number in RPG

I don't deal with multi-national data, but hopefully you would have a
field to state the origin of the data (like a country code for
instance).

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 8:52 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Converting a string to a number in RPG

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

So, in a multilingual application how would one convert all these?
"1234567,89" European comma decimal point
"1,234,567,89" European comma decimal point, with thousand separators
"1,234,567.89" American period decimal point, with thousand

separators

"123,456,789" integer with thousand separators

Just a note: I don't think you can use comma as both a thousands and
decimal separator. It's either comma for thousands and period for
decimals (1,234.56) or periods for thousands and comma for decimal
(1.234,56). However, it's darned near impossible to be completely
agnostic, since "1,234" could be either one-thousand, two-hundred and
thirty-four or one and two-hundred and thirty-four one-thousandths,
depending on the locale.

Joe