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use Scalar::Util qw( looks_like_number );
print looks_like_number('12,48');
# --> 0

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He's PARSING a csv (or more probably a tab or semicolon separated file) so he needs to go exactly the other way around. Accept 12,48 and treat it as a number.

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Re^5: Change decimal point temporarily
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 02, 2010 at 23:35 UTC

    I don't think so. That's the opposite of what he said (changing the decimal point from "." to ","), and it's the opposite of what his code does.

    I see what you mean, but it still make no sense since he says setlocale works. 

    $ perl -we'use POSIX; setlocale LC_NUMERIC, "fr_FR"; print 0+"123,45"'
Argument "123,45" isn't numeric in addition (+) at -e line 1.
123

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      Hm, It seems to work if you use locale: 
      perl -we 'use POSIX; use locale; setlocale LC_NUMERIC, "fr_FR"; $x = "
+123,45"; $x+=0.1; print $x; setlocale LC_NUMERIC, ""; $x += 0.1; prin
+t $x;'

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      Update: this does not work: 
      perl -we 'use POSIX; use locale; setlocale LC_NUMERIC, "fr_FR"; $x = "
+123,45";  print $x; setlocale LC_NUMERIC, ""; $x += 0.1; print $x;'

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      So what I do now is to add 0 if it looks_like_number() and everything works fine. At least what I've tested until now...
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        ah! In that case, 

        (my $tmp = $s) =~ s/,/./;
$s = $tmp if looks_like_numbers($tmp);

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        You'd be better of specifying which columns are numeric, though. Text::CSV_XS can even take advantage of that information if you tell it (via types).

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