Floating point values have diferent decimal separators

[pmk65]

Floating point values have different decimal separators depending on OS/Locale.

Im trying to create a plugin for Webuilder which needs to process floating point values, but it turns out to be a real pain.

Example:

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var teststring = _t( 7/3 );
var testfloat = StrToFloat(teststring);
Script.Message(unitMatch);
Script.Message(_t(fl));

On Windows 8.1, both of these gives me this value: 2,33333333333333
Notice the decimal separator used is a COMMA, not a PERIOD.

While on Windows 7, I get the value: 2.33333333333333
Notice the decimal separator used is a PERIOD.

So how to use floating point values in a plugin?

Currently I do something like this:

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 	 	// Create a floating point number and remove the digits to get the decimal seperator.
	 	var decimalSeparator = RegexReplace(_t(5/2), "\\d*", "", true);

And then replace the decimal seperator before converting string values to floating point.

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StrToFloat(Replace(floatString, ".", decimalSeparator));

But there must be a better way, and force PERIOD to be the decimal separator?

According to the Delphi docs, you can add a 2nd parameter to StrToFloat().
But this parameter (TFormatSettings) is an object, and AFIK it's not possible to create objects in Webuilder plugins.


Program used: WeBuilder 2015 v13.2.0.164

[Aivars]

Unfortunately plugin API does not export any functions that can get/set decimal separator value at this moment. But I think your workaround is quite good - a pair of functions: one to convert a decimal with a point to a decimal with the locale separator; other to convert decimal with the locale separator to a decimal with a point.

[pmk65]

In future versions of the API, it might be an idea to force the decimal separators into a period.
A period is the standard decimal separator in *most* programming languages..
(I bet Im not the only one who find it weird to see code where the decimal is a comma instead of period. )