Re: thousands separator

[Gary Ashburn]

the little heart is right but I'm not sure where I got "char 142" from.

loc.grouping seems to be blank with "gcc grouping.c" and "3" with gcc 
-mno-cygwin grouping.c

~/thoussep> vi grouping.c
~/thoussep> gcc grouping.c
~/thoussep> a
thousands_sep =
~/thoussep>
~/thoussep> gcc -mno-cygwin grouping.c
~/thoussep> a
thousands_sep = ,
loc.grouping[0] = 3
~/thoussep>



At 04:09 PM 7/8/2009, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> > Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:16:24 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Re: thousands separator
> > To: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:22:30 +0300
> > > From: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> > > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> > >
> > > > So I'm beginning to suspect that there's a bug in Gawk, after all.
> > >
> > > Eli,
> > >
> > > What do you get for
> > >
> > >     BEGIIN { printf("%'d\n", 1234567 }
> > >
> > > A random character each time?
> >
> > No, I get the same result, "1234567", every time.  But the thousands
> > separator printed by your test program is a comma.
>
> Strange. There is still something weird going on. The "grouping" field
> is actually supposed to be an array of small values.  A new program
> is below. Here is what the output looks like on my Linux box:
>
>         $ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 ./thousep
>         thousands_sep = ,
>         loc.grouping[0] = 3
>         loc.grouping[1] = 3
>
> I'd like to know what we get on XP and on Vista.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnold
> ------------------- thousep.c ----------------
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <limits.h>
> #include <locale.h>
>
> struct lconv loc;               /* current locale */
>
> int
> main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
>         int i;
>
>         setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "");
>         loc = *localeconv();
>
>         printf("thousands_sep = %s\n", loc.thousands_sep);
>         for (i = 0; i < 12 && loc.grouping[i] != 0 && 
> loc.grouping[i] != CHAR_MAX; i++) {
>                 printf("loc.grouping[%d] = %d\n", i, loc.grouping[i]);
>         }
>         if (loc.grouping[i] == CHAR_MAX)
>                 printf("loc.grouping[%d] = CHAR_MAX\n", i);
>
>         return 0;
> }