[jira] Resolved: (STDCXX-412) money_get fails to parse currency in international format

["Farid Zaripov (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STDCXX-412?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Farid Zaripov resolved STDCXX-412.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

Resolving, since I think it's not a bug.

> money_get fails to parse currency in international format
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: STDCXX-412
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STDCXX-412
>             Project: C++ Standard Library
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: 22. Localization
>    Affects Versions: 4.1.3
>         Environment: gcc 4.1.1 on Linux
>            Reporter: Mark Brown
>            Assignee: Farid Zaripov
>             Fix For: 4.2
>
>
> The example program money_get fails when extractinng monetary values in international format such as "USD 1234" probably because of a bug in the library. From http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-stdcxx-dev/200705.mbox/%3c46461EFE.20506@roguewave.com%3e:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sebor@roguewave.com
> Sent: Sat, 12 May 2007 14:09:34 -0600
> To: stdcxx-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: svn commit: r537492 - /incubator/stdcxx/trunk/doc/stdlibref/money-get.html
> Mark Brown wrote:
> > Martin,
> > 
> > Thanks for fixing it! I have a question about the new code: Could you show an example of an international monetary string that would be correctly parsed by the facet? I tried a few but none of them could be parsed. For instance, "USD 1234" gives this output:
> > USD 1234 --> "" --> 0
> > The same happens with g++ and STLport so I suspect I must be doing something wrong. Removing the space between the currency symbol and the number didn't make a difference.
> Hmm, I guess I should have tested the internationalized behavior before
> I put it in. I think the code is correct as is and your input should be
> correctly parsed by the facet (and produce 1234 on output). I'm not sure
> what's going on. Stepping through the code it looks like the money_get
> facet ends up retrieving the wrong specialization of moneypunct, i.e.,
> moneypunct<char, false> when it needs moneypunct<char, true>. What's
> puzzling is that both libstdc++ and STLport behave the same. It seems
> like too much of a coincidence for all three implementations to suffer
> from the same bug.
> In any event, thanks for bringing it to our attention! Can you open an
> issue for this as well so we don't forget to investigate it in case I
> don't get around to it soon?
> Thanks
> Martin

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