Decimal separator with VB6

[janogueira]

I want to know what kind of decimal separator is being used in a CPU from a VB6 routine.
How can I do this?

My best regards

José Nogueira

[Buzby]

I suppose the first question I should ask is "Why?"

What difference does it make how the calculation is processed in the CPU providing the figures it comes up with are correct..?

At the lowest level it's only voltage changes in a wire anyway..!!

[Shrog]

I'm sure you don't mean CPU. The CPU does not use decimal seperators, it uses floating point maths, and it is not in decimal format at all.

Only when the operating system receives the results does decimal format become relevant. The operating system will display the result with the decimal seperator of the users choice. In the case of the Windows operating system, this choice is set in the regional settings. You have to read the regional settings for the specific user to determine what the seperator is.

Shrog

[joefoulkes]

The decimal seperator is stored in the registry on NT..

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\sDecimal

and on 98/95 you can get it from the file win.ini..

[intl]
sDecimal=.

[kedaman]

BTW, whats the usual sDecimal you have since i have:

sDecimal=,

i've always had that and it's kind of disturbing when you get commas as results of vb calculations and have to enter points.

[joefoulkes]

UK seetings, sDecimal=.

I think everywere else uses a comma

[Shrog]

South Africa Setting: sDecimal=.

Africa Rules!


Shrog

[kedaman]

damn, maybe i have to change..

[Jop]

Yep guys, here in Holland we have the comma too!
But I just want to say it sucks that the UK wants to do every not-standard (plugs, screws, driving left, weights, mesurements, not even the Euro?! (oh.. am I right?))

I think we have to ban the UK from europe as long as they don't comply with 'the' standards

hehe just kidding, but it can be quite annoying when you want to use your discman in london and the plug doesn't fit!?!

And if they say you can buy 1 foot of licorice I don't even know how long it is!
And when I want to know how big my monitor is, I want to hear it in CM! not Inches

hehe ok I'm overacting.

[Zleepy]

sDecimal=,

Here in Sweden !

[kedaman]

hehe cool, maybe i change back to , since the majority have ","'s now