On Dienstag, 4. Mai 2021 19:00:13 CEST hanyoung wrote:

> Flex doesn't take care of separators, MPFR and GMP do. Flex is merely 
> scanning for numbers and operators to pass to Bison.

That's true. For lexical analysis this does not really matter. How about a 
space as thousand delimiter?

    Swedish locale: 1 000,00

Doesn't this may trick you lexer? Sorry, you asked for more of those 
separators/delimiters. But I think those three are the most common.

Cheers

Thomas


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> On Wednesday, May 5, 2021 12:56 AM, Thomas Baumgart <t...@net-bembel.de> 
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> > Han,
> >
> > On Dienstag, 4. Mai 2021 11:36:04 CEST hanyoung wrote:
> >
> > > Pushed an inelegant solution - include "," as decimal separator in flex. 
> > > As long as there aren't any more decimal separator we're cool.
> >
> > Not sure if this appropriate, but I wanted to warn you about the dilemma 
> > that in some locale the thousand separator and the decimal symbol are 
> > exactly the opposite. Example:
> >
> > German locale: 1.000,00 -> one thousand
> > US locale : 1,000.00 -> one thousand
> >
> > So simply treating the comma and the dot alike without taking the locale 
> > into account may result in wrong values.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Thomas
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> > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> > > On Tuesday, May 4, 2021 6:54 AM, Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org wrote:
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> > > > Added a failing test 
> > > > athttps://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/kalk/-/merge_requests/22
> > > > Now you have to make it work :)
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Albert
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