numbers as text with thousand separators cause error in tonumber() function

Rob

ok I have just submitted a feature request on this issue.

bruce

Rob, as a fairly small and lean company, can’t Corona be a bit more nimble and flexible than this?

It’s a quick and easy win, and I wouldn’t call it a feature - more an omission.

Instead we’ll have to wait 6 months until enough people stumble across the feedback page (I’ve been there a handful of times in six years of using Corona) to possibly vote it up - and let’s face it, most won’t care enough to vote for it, so it’ll probably never happen. That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t have been in the API to begin with.

Nick, one of the challenges of being small and lean, is there are simply not enough engineering hours in the day to do everything you and us want to do.  Something small like this won’t take a lot of votes, but it’s more having a way to track it.  I believe this will be easy to implement, but still that means an engineer isn’t working on some other task that you (the community) has already asked for.

Rob