Subject: RE: setlocale
From: WJCarpenter (bill-abisource@carpenter.ORG)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 15:15:59 CDT
dom> When should you use it? At least before and after every sprintf()
dom> that has a numeric value. We've got to make sure that these
dom> formatted numbers work right (our number parsing routines don't
dom> know what to do with 8,500in and they shouldn't have to - 8.500in
dom> is the standard we're sticking to).
dom> setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C"); // set locale to C sprintf(buf,
dom> "%.4f", float_foo); setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, ""); // reset locale
Now *that* is my idea of a good place for a macro.
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