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Subject: VALUE - what to do with "." and ","?
The VALUE function takes a string and returns a number. If it gets "," or "." in a regular number, what should it do? In short: Do we require "C" locale interpretation of Numbers for VALUE? Is it locale-dependent? Does it try "C" locale first, and then a locale if that fails? What do current implementations, including Excel, OOo, Gnumeric, KSpread, etc., do? Even if you don't like _automatic_ conversion of string to number, I think we all agree that there MUST be a function that does it... and that's VALUE. But I don't think we can leave such an important issue unstated. --- David A. Wheeler
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