Re^2: need idiom - compare a number to a string

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Your regex only catches positive integers, which may be okay -- but it's certainly not all valid numbers. Consider negative integers, rationals, and numbers in scientific notation, for exammple.

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Re^3: need idiom - compare a number to a string by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 18, 2006 at 00:08 UTC
It don't think we have to catch those (well, maybe negatives). It sounds like the OP is talking error codes or something similar, which wouldn't be floating point numbers.	[reply]

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