If you're formatting negative values with brackets, which is common in financial and accounting scenarios, accounting.unformat should recognise them. Currently:
accounting.unformat( "GBP (53,180.08)" ) // 5318008 (should be -5318008)
But this could definitely get confusing for people if not done properly and requires a pretty solid regular expression and good documentation, otherwise it'll become one of those things that people constantly say "Hey man wtf" because they weren't aware of that behaviour.
wjcrowcroft
commented
12 years ago
Not so much a 'bug' as a 'huh?'
If you're formatting negative values with brackets, which is common in financial and accounting scenarios,
accounting.unformatshould recognise them. Currently:But this could definitely get confusing for people if not done properly and requires a pretty solid regular expression and good documentation, otherwise it'll become one of those things that people constantly say "Hey man wtf" because they weren't aware of that behaviour.