----- Original Message ----- > From: Ludo Brands <ludo.bra...@free.fr> > To: 'FPC-Pascal users discussions' <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2012 12:54 PM > Subject: RE : [fpc-pascal] Currency symbol wrong location > >> This is as per doc? >> >> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/format.html >> >> FloatToStrF(Argument,ffGeneral,Precision,3) >> >> M Currency format. the next argument in the var{Args} >> array must be a >> floating point value. The argument is converted to a decimal >> string using currency notation. This means that fixed-point >> notation is used, but that the currency symbol is appended. >> If precision is specified, then then it overrides the >> CurrencyDecimals global variable used in the FloatToStrF >> >> In short, the M specifier formats it's argument as follows: >> >> FloatToStrF(Argument,ffCurrency,9999,Precision) >> >> Note the /append/ :-) >> > > Then there seems to be a contradiction in the doc. The position of the > currency symbol in FloatToStrF with ffCurrency is determined by > CurrencyFormat. > > CurrencyFormat:=0; > s:=FloatToStrF(123.25,ffCurrency,5,2); > s:=Format('%m', [123.25]); > > Both calls return $123.25 in s. > > Ludo >
Thanks, that worked. The trick was CurrencyFormat := 0; Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal