translating foreign data

[Ben Bacarisse]

Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> writes:
 
> I need to translate numeric data in a string format into a binary
> format.  I know there are at least two different methods of
> representing parts less that 1, such as "10.5" and "10,5".  The data
> is encoded using code pages, and can vary depending on the file being
> read (so I can't rely on current locale settings).
>
> I'm sure this is a solved problem, but I'm not finding those
> solutions.  Any pointers?

You say "at least two" and give two but not knowing the others will hamper
anyone trying to help.  (I appreciate that you may not yet know if there
are to be any others.)

You say in a followup that you don't need to worry about digit grouping
marks (like thousands separators) so I'm not sure what the problem is.
Can't you just replace ',' with '.' a proceed as if you had only one
representation?

The code page remark is curious.  Will some "code pages" have digits
that are not ASCII digits?

-- 
Ben.