From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-05-09T04:54:38+09:00
Subject: Re: to check for numericality

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Michael W. Ryder wrote:
| Farrel Lifson wrote:
|> @val = someValue if ( Integer( someValue) rescue Float( someValue )
|> rescue false)
|>
|
| How would you fix this so it would work for valid numbers such as
| "1,234.56"?  I realize that the OP uses comma separators, but Excel
| would import the above number as "1,234.56" to a .csv file.

You just failed i18n. 1.234,56 is a Continental European way to express
that, and Excel, for example, is aware of that distinction (so should
the OS be). ;)


And with that last thought: leverage the locale settings of the Os,
somehow? Maybe via OpenOffice or Ruby bindings into this (if such a
library is available)?

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