[Gambas-user] I create a new function to share

[Benoît Minisini]

> Benoît Minisini ha scritto:
> >> Changed file "/usr/share/i18n/locales/it_IT" so the section:
> >>
> >>     LC_NUMERIC
> >>     decimal_point             "<U002C>"
> >>     thousands_sep             ""      <------------ empty string
> >>     grouping                  0;0
> >>     END LC_NUMERIC
> >>
> >>
> >> results in:
> >>
> >>     LC_NUMERIC
> >>     decimal_point             "<U002C>"
> >>     thousands_sep             "<U002E>"   <------- dot simbol
> >>     grouping                  0;0
> >>     END LC_NUMERIC
> >>
> >>
> >> ...and now it works ok.
> >>
> >> I don't know why there is this error - don't even know if this *is* an
> >> error, but now it works as expected. If somebody confirms to me that the
> >> value of *thousand_sep* should not be empty, I can post a bug to the
> >> maintainer of the file *BUT*:
> >>
> >> It is worth to note that in that file, a few lines above, in the section
> >> LC_MONETARY, the thousand separator is correctly indicated. As Benoit
> >> says, all this could be correct - if we want thousand separators perhaps
> >> we have to use the monetary notation and not a "general number" one. In
> >> fact, to separate the thousands is more a commercial habit than a
> >> general/scientific one. But if this is true, then perhaps gambas lacks a
> >> CURRENCY data type, or a mean to use a currency/monetary representation
> >> inside format$(). By the way, a CURRENCY data type could come handy by
> >> itself - I had some problems with rounding floating point values and, in
> >> all the places where calculations were done (simple additions and
> >> subtraction of numbers with only two decimals of precision, normal for
> >> currency), I had to modify the code and round down values myself - tired
> >> of "1.999,99999998" numbers...
> >>
> >> In other languages the CURRENCY datatype is defined as an INT64 which,
> >> when printed or mixed with other numerical types, is first divided (or
> >> multiplied) by 10000 (ten thousands). In other words, the number 22,5
> >> (twentytwo and a half) is stored as the integer 225000. This way, all
> >> rounding errors are get rid of.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Doriano
> >
> > I won't make a Currency data type, but you can do:
> >
> > Print Format$(Amount, "$0,###.##")
> >
> > to format currencies (see the documentation of Format).
> >
> > Regards,
>
> I saw the documentation, but not always I want to have the currency
> symbol printed... is there a way to use the thousand separator without
> putting a currency symbol in?
>
> Thanks anyway and regards,
> Doriano
>

Don't put the '$' sign. But beware that then the thousand separator used won't 
be the "currency" one but the normal one.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît