Jinx wrote:
> I would like to cater for any format of i/p the user chooses, so
> the only significant character is the "." (or lack thereof, implying
> an integer). ie 0022, 022, 22, 22.0, 22.00 must all be interpreted
> by the PIC as plain 22. I realise that the more latitude I give the
> user, the more comprehensive the interpreter needs to be, but I'm
> prepared to go the extra mile for the sake of user-friendliness

This is really not hard if you break it into two algorithms, one before the
point and one after.  Before the point initialize the value to 0.  For each
digit, multiply the current value by 10, then add the digit.  After the
point init a scale factor to .1.  For each digit, multiply the digit value
by the scale factor, add that into the accumulated value, then multiply the
scale factor by .1.


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