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[fluppe689]

Hello again Experts,

Is there a way to know how pc is configured with decimal sign = "." or ","


Thanks in advance

Filip

 

[fluppe689]

Hello Experts

A littel mistake from me i did not mean decimal sign but the sperator sign

wfg,


Filip

 

[Nifrabar]

Hi Flip,

Although not a real answer to your Q pls have a look at :

http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/locale/localedates.htm

Maybe you can take information from that and convert into VFP.

Meanwhile: retrieving of setting for this within VFP this is simple:

? SET("Separator") gives you the answer (command prompt)

-Bart

 

[Mike Lewis]

Hi Filip,

You can do it like this:

1. First, set SYSFORMATS ON. This will ensure that your VFP session respects the user's Windows settings.

2. Issue SET("Separator").

To summarise:

SET SYSFORMATS ON
lcSep = SET("Separator")
* lcSep now contains the separator symbol

Mike

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[Nifrabar]

Hi Mike!

Good point the "Set sysformats on".
Almost forgot that one.

-Bart

 

[Olaf Doschke]

A little backgorund on SET SYSFORMATS:

It does not permanently overload foxpro settings with windows settings. Eg after SET SYSFORMATS ON you can SET POINT TO ".", even if the system setting is "," and the point setting then will differ from the system setting again, even though SYSFORMATS still is ON.

That maybe unexpected design of the setting also continues, in that SET SYSFORMATS OFF has no meaning, it does not revert settings. Eg I have SET("POINT") as "." by default. Due to german windows settings SET SYSFORMAT ON sets this as "," and SET SYSFORMATS OFF does not revert that. Restarting FoxPro does.

Directly after SET SYSFORMATS ON you can be sure windows settings are taken over into foxpro settings (of course as far as there are similar foxpro settings). Don't check SET("SYSFORMATS") to be "ON" and then rely you read out system settings, that depends on the settings not being overridden again.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Olaf, yes, I agree. That's why I said it will "ensure that your VFP session respects the user's Windows settings". Note the stress on "session".

Filip, all this also brings up the question: why do you need to determine the separator character. If you want your application to respect the Windows setting for the seperator, just set SYSFORMATS on, and continue to format your number strings as before (with the caveats that Olaf mentioned).

Mike

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[fluppe689]

Hello Mike,

Thank You Vrey much,
Again you are (like others to) again a great help. A star is born again

Wfg,

Filip