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JoeAvery · Jan 17th, 2006, 6:49 AM

Hello,

I am working on a stock market analysis application with Deplhi 5 and I run into a problem with decimal conventions specified in Regional Settings. Normally, ASCII text stock data historical files have the following format:

Date,Open,HIgh,Low,Close,Volume (ex. 20060117, 40.05, 41.67, 39.58, 41.25, 234876)

When I try to manipulate (read, convert, etc.) those files and the Regional Settings are set to European conventions with the decimal being a comma, I get an error in my program "40.05 is not a valid floating point number".

Is there a way to deal with the regional settings in Delphi 5 so that decimal conventions are appropriately handled by the program?

Thanks in advance

Joe

Jan 17th, 2006, 6:49 AM	#1
JoeAvery Newbie Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Decimal conventions Hello, I am working on a stock market analysis application with Deplhi 5 and I run into a problem with decimal conventions specified in Regional Settings. Normally, ASCII text stock data historical files have the following format: Date,Open,HIgh,Low,Close,Volume (ex. 20060117, 40.05, 41.67, 39.58, 41.25, 234876) When I try to manipulate (read, convert, etc.) those files and the Regional Settings are set to European conventions with the decimal being a comma, I get an error in my program "40.05 is not a valid floating point number". Is there a way to deal with the regional settings in Delphi 5 so that decimal conventions are appropriately handled by the program? Thanks in advance Joe