Re: floating point regexp

You are right, this is a bug; but anyway, this is superceded by
http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2804356 (which was lifted from the
JSON spec to ensure compatibility).

Have fun,

Oren Ben-Kiki


On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Aaron Patterson <aaron-nCDmOI4KsdrYeBQzxHgb1laTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org
> wrote:

> 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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