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Beginner Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 28

In my country we have "," as a decimal symbol in place of "." and I write for example 2,8 instead of 2.8 in all programs.
Unfortunately this makes impossible using floating point numbers/operations in zMUD...
I know I could change the symbol to "." in Windows->Regional Settings but this is not a good idea - some other programs would stop working.
Any suggestions how to go round this problem from inside of zMUD?

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

You'll need to build yourself a workaround until Zugg gets around to regionalizing such things (this came up a while back in the beta forums, I believe, but I forgot how he answered). Basically, what you'll want to do is make a function that simply replaces any instance of the comma with a period. If you want to see your numbers in the local format after you do your math, a sister function that replaces the period with the comma should be created:

#function Reg2Dec {%replace(%1,",",".")}
#function Dec2Reg {%replace(%1,".",",")}

To use it, do something like this:

@Dec2Reg(@Reg2Dec("3,4") * @Reg2Dec("0,5")})

Beginner Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 28

Thanks alot MattLofton for the below workaround and information.