floating point regexp

Aaron Patterson <aaron-nCDmOI4KsdrYeBQzxHgb1laTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
Newsgroups gmane.text.yaml.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

The regexp for base 10 floating point values listed on this page:

  http://yaml.org/type/float.html

Says:

  [-+]?([0-9][0-9_]*)?\.[0-9.]*([eE][-+][0-9]+)? (base 10)

This regexp allows any number of dots in a row to be a valid base 10
float (for example "." or ".." or "....").  Shouldn't this regexp at
least be:

  [-+]?([0-9][0-9_]*)?\.[0-9]*([eE][-+][0-9]+)? (base 10)

Or am I missing something? (I realize the above regexp would match "."
as a valid float, but what are you going to do? ;-) ).

Thanks for your time.

-- 
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/

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