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Martin Sebor commented on STDCXX-412:
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Also, if it there really is no bug to fix the issue should be closed as
Invalid, not Won't Fix.
> money_get fails to parse currency in international format
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: STDCXX-412
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STDCXX-412
> Project: C++ Standard Library
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: 22. Localization
> Affects Versions: 4.1.3
> Environment: gcc 4.1.1 on Linux
> Reporter: Mark Brown
> Assignee: Farid Zaripov
> Fix For: 4.2
>
>
> The example program money_get fails when extractinng monetary values in
> international format such as "USD 1234" probably because of a bug in the
> library. From
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-stdcxx-dev/200705.mbox/[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sat, 12 May 2007 14:09:34 -0600
> To: stdcxx-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: svn commit: r537492 -
> /incubator/stdcxx/trunk/doc/stdlibref/money-get.html
> Mark Brown wrote:
> > Martin,
> >
> > Thanks for fixing it! I have a question about the new code: Could you show
> > an example of an international monetary string that would be correctly
> > parsed by the facet? I tried a few but none of them could be parsed. For
> > instance, "USD 1234" gives this output:
> > USD 1234 --> "" --> 0
> > The same happens with g++ and STLport so I suspect I must be doing
> > something wrong. Removing the space between the currency symbol and the
> > number didn't make a difference.
> Hmm, I guess I should have tested the internationalized behavior before
> I put it in. I think the code is correct as is and your input should be
> correctly parsed by the facet (and produce 1234 on output). I'm not sure
> what's going on. Stepping through the code it looks like the money_get
> facet ends up retrieving the wrong specialization of moneypunct, i.e.,
> moneypunct<char, false> when it needs moneypunct<char, true>. What's
> puzzling is that both libstdc++ and STLport behave the same. It seems
> like too much of a coincidence for all three implementations to suffer
> from the same bug.
> In any event, thanks for bringing it to our attention! Can you open an
> issue for this as well so we don't forget to investigate it in case I
> don't get around to it soon?
> Thanks
> Martin
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