I had the same problem.
Including excel files to read, coming from different pc's (some "." other ",")
Then communicating with different RS232 devices, some read both "," and ".", some not.
What they write was for some ".", for others ","
I made 2 subvi's: commatopoint.vi and pointtocomma.vi, with strings as in-and output.
Strings because that's the way RS232 speaks and listens, and it's the in-output of the excel files.
I made them myself (don't know if they exist) to better handle exceptions.
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