Re: "+" and "-" are numbers.
Re: "+" and "-" are numbers.
- Subject: Re: "+" and "-" are numbers.
- From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 14:24:11 +0100
"Arthur J. Knapp" wrote on Fri, 02 Aug 2002 13:42:36 -0400:
>
P.S. If someone asked Nigel Garvey very politely, he could probably
>
come up with a much nicer and robust number parsing routine. :)
Oh please, Arthur! Life's too short.... ;-)
Seriously, though: I would think it unlikely that anyone would want to
parse numbers from from a random text - where numbers generally have
white space fore and aft and may even be written out as words - without
reference to anything else in the document. Numbers in file names can
easily be extracted by looking at each character in turn or via a
shortcut based on a known name format. Numbers in forms usually have a
crucial landmark nearby, such as "Number:", "ID:", or " trombones".
Otherwise, the numbers are meaningless and it's hard to imagine why
anyone would want to extract them.
NG
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