Quiz time -- "euronum" edit

[John Esak]

I hate you, I hate edits, I hate quizzes... so I'm not going to even try...
Did I mention I hate edits?  :-)

John


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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Kenneth
> Brody
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 10:00 AM
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> Subject: Quiz time -- "euronum" edit
>
>
> Quiz time!  (I hope everyone studied.)
>
> I recently posted the following edit:
>
>     euronum   \ N N N euron2 | N N euron2 | N euron2
>     euron2    [{ <.> N N N }] ( <,00> @ | "," NUM NUM )
>
> This takes numbers and puts them in the European style, where digits
> are separated by periods and the decimal is a comma.  For example:
>
>     123.456.789,01
>
> My questions to you are:
>
>     Why wouldn't the following, simpler, edit work?
>
>         euronum   \ N N N euron2 | N N euron2 | N euron2
>         euron2    [{ <.> N N N }] <,> NUM NUM
>
>     And, how does the "corrected" version above fix the problem?
>
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