Find and Replace "period"

[Grant Hogarth]

This may be a silly question, but what happens if you change the locale setting for your computer to Ireland? 

As for the other, may I suggest that you use a variable for the separator, and remember that you may need to add another to deal with >999.99.

US Values:
<.decimal> = .
<.separator> = ,
<.currency> = $

EU Values:
<.decimal> = ,
<.separator> = <<space>>
<.currency> = € [alt+0128]

You can then change the values easily.

To insert these for the current static characters, you would:
1) Create the <.decimal> variable.
2) Insert the <.decimal> variable into the text.
3) Copy the <.decimal> variable.
4) Select "use wildcards" and "replace by pasting"
5) Search for text ".[0-9][0-9]" (no quotes)
6) Select just the "."
7) Do a Replace.  
   Unfortunately, cannot do a "replace all", as it will also 
   replace the two numerals to the right of the ".". 
   If there are only a couple of forms, you could do a more 
   specific S&R (select "<variable>+##" (number pair) and then 
   search on ".##", then repeat for other pairs.
   (Alternatively, you could select "<variable>+#" and then 
    do ten searches on ".#" where #=1-0) 
7) Repeat for <.separator>,<.currency>

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces+grant.hogarth=reuters.com at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+grant.hogarth=reuters.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Scott White
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 2:38 PM
To: Framers
Subject: Find and Replace "period"

Folks
I have a potential customer from Ireland. We are trying to show him an output in Frame using the euro and comma for pricing in a catalog.
I can replace the dollar sign with the euro symbol easily, but is there a way to find and replace in a certain paragraph tag a period we use as a decimal point and two numeric characters ($1.00) to a comma and two numeric characters (1,00)? Basically substituting our period for the comma.

Thanks in advance
Frame 7.0 Mac, OS 10 Tiger, Frame 7.2 PC, Windows XP Pro
--
Scott White
Media Production Manager
AlaMark Technologies
210-704-8239
swhite at alamark.com


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