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Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> writes: >> >As long as we don't mind losing locale based number grouping (whatever >> >that is, but it's compiled in in my copy of strtol - I disassembled it >> >and can see the pattern of code that's doing it) >> >> We only loose "locale based number grouping" for things that "look >> like numbers" in perl's view - so do we really loose anything? > >We gain more warnings if the system's strtoul() didn't use to complain >about things like "1,234,567" and nicely returned 1234567. Search >perllocale for 'grouping', and see localeconv(3). But I don't see where looks_like_number() lets things with ',' in through to be converted ... -- Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com> Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.Thread Previous | Thread Next