topic Re: Any way to change a decimal separator of a list? in Collaboration with other software

Any way to change a decimal separator of a list?

felcunha — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:59:53 GMT

Hello all,
I'm using zone lists to feed a GDL object.
These lists use comma as decimal separator because this is the standard rule in France... like this :

LGT01 ; 02 ; Living  ;         6,35 ; Main

But, GDL doesn't recognize the comma as a separator and ignores all the decimals.
Does someone know if there's a way to change the way decimal separators are set in AC without having to change the global parameters in the OS system ?

Thanks in advance,

Re: Any way to change a decimal separator of a list?

Barry Kelly — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:08:06 GMT

felcunha wrote:
Does someone know if there's a way to change the way decimal separators are set in AC without having to change the global parameters in the OS system ?

Unfortunately it is an OS setting and can't be controlled in Archicad itself.

But GDL does not need to recognise the decimal point as a separator.
It is a number and therefore has an integer and decimal component already.
If you are trying to convert the number to a string, then you set the number of decimal places that you want to use.

In your example the semi-colon (;) is the separator.

Barry.

Re: Any way to change a decimal separator of a list?

felcunha — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:55:39 GMT

Hello Barry,
Yes but I need to get the whole number for my calculations in my object.
In my example, I want to get the 6.35 value to make math operations. Therefore, GDL does not recognize the comma as the decimal separator and gets only the "6" number.
I'd like to find a way to convert the commas into dots otherwise than using complex GDL code. (and even then I don't know if I could easily do!!)

Re: Any way to change a decimal separator of a list?

Barry Kelly — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 01:08:00 GMT

GDL will recognise the comma or point as the decimal point.
The problem may be that in the list you are getting the information from the 6,35 may actually be two numbers separated by a comma?

Barry.

Re: Any way to change a decimal separator of a list?

felcunha — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 07:32:38 GMT

Barry wrote:
GDL will recognise the comma or point as the decimal point.
The problem may be that in the list you are getting the information from the 6,35 may actually be two numbers separated by a comma?

Barry.

No, I only get the integer numbers of it. I'll check what can be the problem... maybe a Mac OS issue??