Re: Numeric constants and 'D' as an exponent

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 18:35, Dave Nichols <dave.nichols@make247.co.uk> wrote:

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

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