Locale-specific decimal separator in Fmt?

[ronbrown]

Is there a way to get floating-point numbers to use the locale-specific decimal separator in the Fmt() function?

It appears that SetSystemAttribute will only change the separator for UI elements, as described in this thread.  Calling setlocale(LC_ALL, "") doesn't seem to be working either. 

Is this possible?

[Kyle_M]

Ron,

I dont think there is a valid locale-specific-separator you can send the fmt function, but a very simple workaround would be to convert what youre looking at to a string, and swap the period for a comma if they are in the proper locale. The setlocale can be used to read locale settings in windows I believe, if you need to check for those. 

Regards,

Kyle Mozdzyn

Applications Engineering

National Instruments

[ronbrown · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the reply.  I ended up just doing a search and replace and swapping every instance of Fmt() with sprintf_s(), which DOES pay attention to setlocale().

[Kyle_M]

Ron,

Thats great to hear you got it working, and thanks for posting your solution. Learn something new every day!

Regards,

Kyle Mozdzyn

Applications Engineering

National Instruments