Re: [FWP] Could be fun(ny|nier)?

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 03:56:35PM -0400, Bill Jones wrote:
> > Something like this?
> > /^ *[+-]?(?:\d+\.?\d*|\.\d+)(?:[eE][+-]?\d+)? *$/;
> 
> 
> yes :)  That matches Integers or Floating points...
> 
> (But it also matches 3.14.15, and such.  No biggie, I can
>  test for multiple dots, etc....)

Um, no it doesn't...  That regex only matches a single period.

Ronald

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