Handling different decimal separators

[Jack Russell]

Some countries use comma instead of point as the decimal separator (and
presumably there are other variations)

If one has a set of ascii files containing numbers stored in one culture
is there some standard method for reading them in another culture?

Thanks

Jack Russell

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Jack Russell" <ja***@norubbish.tpg.com.au> schrieb:

Some countries use comma instead of point as the decimal separator (and
presumably there are other variations)

If one has a set of ascii files containing numbers stored in one culture
is there some standard method for reading them in another culture?

Yes, if you know which culture has been used to write the data to the file:

\\\
Imports System.Globalization
..
..
..
Dim nf As NumberFormatInfo = _
CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("de-DE").NumberFormat
Dim i As Integer = Integer.Parse("2323,123", nf)
///

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[Jack Russell]

Thank you
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:

"Jack Russell" <ja***@norubbish.tpg.com.au> schrieb:

Some countries use comma instead of point as the decimal separator
(and presumably there are other variations)

If one has a set of ascii files containing numbers stored in one
culture is there some standard method for reading them in another
culture?

Yes, if you know which culture has been used to write the data to the file:

\\\
Imports System.Globalization
..
..
..
Dim nf As NumberFormatInfo = _
CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("de-DE").NumberFormat
Dim i As Integer = Integer.Parse("2323,123", nf)
///