Vista - find decimal separator

Hi,

(Kind of a repost)

Is there a way to find out what the system's decimal separator and
thousands separator characters are.

GetLocale will get me an Locale ID, but it's settings can be
overridden. I want to specifically know these two values.

tia
arno

arno wrote:hi Arno,

If all else fails, you could use a "Brute Force" approach.
That is, use the "FormatCurrency" method on some number,
and then just use some character-by-character disassembly
to examine the result to see what the separators are.

cheers, jw
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You got questions? WE GOT ANSWERS!!! ..(but, no guarantee
the answers will be applicable to the questions)

p.s., if you don't mind calling the system api from script,
then you would use the "GetCurrencyFormat" or "GetCurrencyFormatEx"
api call.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...84(VS.85).aspx

Aside from getting the separators right, if you are dealing with
India or China, there are also different ways of "grouping",
i.e., not everybody groups by three's.

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/ar...18/578251.aspx

Seems to do the trick, tx!

arno

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:18:50 -0700 (PDT), Tom Lavedas
<tglbatch@xxxxxx> wrote: