I need to assign to a variable the environment decimal separator in Octave.
For example, if the pc is set in US format
>> decsep
ans = .
Instead if you run the script from a pc that has European decimal format the output will be
>> decsep
ans = ,
On Linux, you can use:
[~, s] = system('locale decimal_point'); %returns decimal separator and a '↵'
decsp = s(1); %Required answer
You can use Java to get the decimal separator:
Format = javaMethod( "getInstance", "java.text.DecimalFormat" );
Symbols = javaMethod( "getDecimalFormatSymbols", Format );
Sep = javaMethod( "getDecimalSeparator", Symbols )
Alternatively you can use the following PowerShell (powershell.exe or pwsh.exe) script:
[~, s] = system("pwsh -command (Get-Culture).NumberFormat.NumberDecimalSeparator");
Sep = s(1);