[Zope] thousands_commas

David Siedband david at calteg.org
Tue Aug 31 19:55:25 EDT 2004


How about submitting to a DTML method that calls some python to split() 
on ',' then mung the parts back together, and call the zSQL to insert 
the float?
--
David



On Aug 31, 2004, at 2:16 PM, hpinson at indepthl.com wrote:

> Hi. I'm not sure if this is a zope question, but...
>
> I have a client who is insisting on being able to enter numeric data
> into an HTML form (dtml-method in this case) using commas or not:
>
> 9999.00 or 9,999.00
>
> I can output float information from the database ok, using the
> thousands_commas directive, however input and submission of a form
> using commas causes an error.
>
> I've even tried to strip commas in the ZSQL Method update statement:
>
> UPDATE ...
> total_area=TRIM(',' FROM <dtml-sqlvar total_area type=float>),
> ...
>
> but that does not seem to work either.
>
> Any suggestion on how to allow this behavior?
>
> BTW, this is legacy DTML. I cannot use ZPT here easily.
>
> Harlow Pinson
> Indepth Learning
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