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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (16 children)

It's always been possible to format a range before inputting data. It won't be interpreted that way.

It only does that when it's formatet as "General" aka "Nobody knows what the fuck I'm about to do".

It would probably be more beneficial to change the default format to something else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (9 children)

It would probably be more beneficial to change the default format to something else.

AfaIk this is not possible. Or MS doesn't allow it. User Defined would be pretty useless if MS would simply stop interpretating what I want to do in general

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

function validate(val) 
   try:  
       cast val as numeric
   except:
      print "Oops, not a number"
      cast val as general  ## date or whatever 
end

validate(12.5)     ## returns 12.5
validate("12.5")   ## returns 12.5
validate("12 . 5") ## returns a date maybe

[–] PoolloverNathan 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)