[Pierre JUHEN <pierre.juhen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Works great !!

Thank you.

Pierre



Guy Harris a �crit :

> On Oct 27, 2003, at 1:07 PM, Pierre JUHEN wrote:
>
> > In French, float are represented with a comma instead of a dot.
>
>
> In most if not all of Continental Europe, as I understand it, a comma 
> rather than a dot is used as a "decimal point" (and the reverse 
> applies to thousands separator).
>
> > Using it with match doesn't work. Filter engine says " , unexpected 
> > in this context".
> >
> > It doesn't work even by replacing the comma by a dot.
>
>
> But you probably get a different error:
>
>     "123.456" is not a valid number.
>
> or something such as that.
>
> > I am not an expert of "locale",  so, I am not able to propose a patch.
>
>
> It's not a locale issue, it's a lexical analyzer issue; the lexical 
> analyzer needs to allow ',' as a character in an "unparsed string".
>
> I've checked in a change to allow that (and to allow '+' as a 
> character in an "unparsed string", so you can do 1.234e+5 or 
> 1,234e+5).  That change doesn't affect the code that parses the 
> resulting string, so whether a comma or a dot is allowed as a decimal 
> point depends on the locale you're in.  (I tried the patched version 
> with LANG set to "fr_FR", and it allowed 1,234e+5 but didn't allow 
> 1.234e+5.)
>
> I've attached a patch for the change I checked in.