Re: [O] Alignment Regexp Should Recognize Currencies

[Bastien]

Hi Daniel,

Daniel E. Doherty <address@hidden> writes:

> I noticed that the regular expression for recognizing what columns are
> numeric in a table for purposes of right-aligning does not pick up
> dollar values with commas.
>
> For example, $23,821,415.18 would be treated as "text" and left-aligned,
> which I don't believe is what one would expect.

To me, values that are right-aligned are those who are ready for further
computation, and letting $3 be right-aligned would be confusing.

But I understand your need.

Carsten, what do you think?

-- 
 Bastien