JoeAvery

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

Carl

Joe

It's very hard to say without more details. How are you reading in the data? What function are you using to convert the strings to floats (there are numerous).

If you give some more details I'm sure someone will be able to advise.

Carl

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