by Anonymous (267 Submissions)
Category: Windows System Services
Compatability: Visual Basic 4.0 (32-bit)
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Mon 25th January 1999
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
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Retrieve the computers currency symbol based on the Regional Settings of the control panel
API Declarations
Private Declare Function GetUserDefaultLCID% Lib "kernel32" ()
Private Const LOCALE_SCURRENCY = &H14
VBcoders
Dim iRet1 As Long
Dim iRet2 As Long
Dim lpLCDataVar As String
Dim Pos As Integer
Dim Locale As Long
Locale = GetUserDefaultLCID()
iRet1 = GetLocaleInfo(Locale, LOCALE_SCURRENCY, lpLCDataVar, 0)
Symbol = String$(iRet1, 0)
iRet2 = GetLocaleInfo(Locale, LOCALE_SCURRENCY, Symbol, iRet1)
Pos = InStr(Symbol, Chr$(0))
If Pos > 0 Then
Symbol = Left$(Symbol, Pos - 1)
End If
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