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Re: FIXME in str2double.cc
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: FIXME in str2double.cc |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:53:33 -0500 |
On 27-Dec-2012, Rik wrote:
| str2double is supposed to accept the comma as a thousands separator.
| Octave is being lazy and removes all the commas from the string before
| processing. This works fine for legitimate input such as str2double
| ("1,234.56") but it masks errors when you try str2double ("1,2,3,4") and
| get 1234 as a result. I believe it has been verified that Matlab is
| actually checking for proper use of the comma and will return a NaN in the
| second case.
Could we do a regexp replacement instead of simply stripping the
commas?
jwe