P.S. And if the text where the number is found can be in any language,
we must be able to account for the option which is set in COBOL by the
phrase DECIMAL-POINT IS COMMA in the ENVIRONMENT DIVISION, and then if
it can /actually/ be in any language we must account for natural
integers using all of Greek (decimal without zero using lowercase
alphabetic and two kinds of apostrophes), Hebrew (decimal without zero
using Hebrew letters, and possibly with several letters for a higher
hundred), Western Arabic-Indic, Eastern Arabic-Indic, Devanagari (and
possibly other Brahmic) and CJK hanzi/kanji/hanja conventions. That
would make it _really_ complicated. (Both Arabic-Indic and Brahmic
including Devanagari write their natural integers like we do, only
with different sets of ten digits.) (And I have knowingly skipped
Roman numbers with or without the possibility to have an ending i
written as j, Greek acrophonic aka Attic, Maya, Cuneiform and more.
:-P )
Best regards,
Tony.
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