Re: Numeric constants and 'D' as an exponent

[Dave Nichols <dave.nichols@...>]

I've upgraded to 5.1.4 and its the same and its windoze, so your 
analysis must be correct. It took me by surprise. I was using tonumber() 
to distinguish strings from numbers (being lazy) and this string 
'05D34306' converted to a number (which displayed as 1.#INF). My script 
then collapsed.

Peter Cawley wrote:
> Lua uses the C library function strtod to convert strings to numbers.
> Some CRT implementations only permit 'e' and 'E' to be used to begin
> the exponent (i.e. as described on
> http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdlib/strtod.html ),
> while others permit 'e', 'E', 'd' or 'D' to be used (i.e. the MSVC CRT
> described on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kxsfc1ab(VS.71).aspx
> )
>
> 2008/11/3 Ken Smith <kgsmith@gmail.com>:
>   
> > 5.1.3 doesn't appear to accept D or d.
> >
> > Lua 5.1.3  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> >     
> > > =tonumber('2d2')
> > >       
> > nil
> >     
> > > =tonumber('2D2')
> > >       
> > nil
> >     
> > > =tonumber('2e2')
> > >       
> > 200
> >     
> > > =tonumber('2E2')
> > >       
> > 200
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Dave Nichols <dave.nichols@make247.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> >     
> > > The tonumber function appears to accept a 'D' (or 'd') as the exponent
> > > character as well as the documented 'E' (or 'e'). Is this intended?
> > > E.g. tonumber'2d2' returns 200
> > > This is version 5.1.2 but there are no patches related to this up to 5.1.4
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Dave Nichols
> > > Match-IT Limited
> > > Tel: 0845 1300 510
> > > Fax: 0845 1300 610
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Regards,

Dave Nichols
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