Re: [office-formula] DECIMAL function and spaces

[Eike Rathke <erack@sun.com>]

Hi David,

On Tuesday, 2007-01-23 12:22:26 -0500, David A. Wheeler wrote:

> I didn't reply earlier because I agree with you.  It's leading spaces
> that should be ignored.  I can easily imagine an extended version of
> decimal that accepted fractions (e.g., "1 1/2"), and obviously spaces
> should NOT be ignored.  I don't think such an extension should be
> mandated by the standard (that's a fairly exotic extension), but we
> should PERMIT it.

Not in that function. DECIMAL's functionality is conversion from other
bases, the "1 1/2" case doesn't fit there. Actually it's input related
and VALUE should be able to parse it.

  Eike

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