Question

Is there a built-in Delphi function which would convert a string such as ‘3,232.00’ to float? StrToFloat raises an exception because of the comma. Or is the only way to strip out the comma first and then do StrToFloat?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Do you exactly know, that ‘.’ is decimal separator and ‘,’ is thousand separator (always)?
If so, then you should fill the TFormatSettings record and pass it to StrToFloat.

FillChar(FS, SizeOf(FS), 0);
... // filling other fields
FS.ThousandSeparator := ',';
FS.DecimalSeparator := '.';
V := StrToFloat(S, FS);