International settings

[Tim]

Hi there,
I have written a code to perform some data analysis.
Because of the "new and improved" international setting on
CDbl etc. I have that my users cannot use the software
outside UK-US unless they change the international setting.
The input is from UNIX like programs so they use the US
convention for numbers

This quite stupid, does anyone know a simple modification,
statement that will allow the program to be "locale
independent".
I would prefer not to make big modifications. It works
fine as it is!

Regards,

T

[Armin Zingler]

"Tim" <a.****************@rl.ac.uk> schrieb

Hi there,
I have written a code to perform some data analysis.
Because of the "new and improved" international setting on
CDbl etc. I have that my users cannot use the software
outside UK-US unless they change the international setting.
The input is from UNIX like programs so they use the US
convention for numbers

This quite stupid, does anyone know a simple modification,
statement that will allow the program to be "locale
independent".
I would prefer not to make big modifications. It works
fine as it is!

Untested:
1. Create a new System.Globalization.CultureInfo object by passing a fixed
culture name (e.g. "en-EN") to the constructor.
2. Pass the CultureInfo object and the string to be parsed to Double.Parse.
The CultureInfo object implements IFormatProvider, so this is possible.
--
Armin

[Alexandre Moura]

You can change the culture info for the curent thread - all numeric to
string conversions after that should use the culture info you chose

To change the current thread locale:
Dim lc As Globalization.CultureInfo = New
Globalization.CultureInfo("en-GB")
Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = lc
Console.WriteLine(CStr(CDec(1.1)))