Re: [office-formula] NUMBERSTRING (dropped)

["David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>]

Eike said:
> 6.18.14 NUMBERSTRING talks about a hidden Excel function. I've never
> encountered it. While the fine OOo Excel file format doc mentions the
> NUMBERSTRING opcode, there doesn't seem to be any useful documentation
> about the function itself available. It also isn't listed in the Ecma
> spec. From the context I've seen it during searches on the net it may be
> related to conversion from number to native numerals in a Japanese
> Excel. I suggest to drop this obscure function for now.

I agree/second.  It's been in the proposed list for a long time, and no one has given any evidence that it's important for interoperability.

I've removed it from my draft, and added a note to section 3 explaining why.

--- David A. Wheeler