Invisible wrote:
> On 09/11/2010 10:11 PM, Warp wrote:
> 
>>    *Using* a parser library for something which can be easily 
>> expressed with
>> a regexp string would be complete overkill.
> 
> Yeah, that's true. Writing
> 
>   string "foo"
>   many char
>   string "bar"
> 
> is drastically harder than just saying "foo*bar".
> 
> Oh, wait...

OK, so how do you do

(\+|-)[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?(E(\+|-)?[0-9]{1,3})?

in your parser language?

(That is, optional sign, one or more digits, optional decimal point followed 
by one or more digits, optional E followed by optional sign followed by one 
to three digits.)

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