Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> (\+|-)[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?(E(\+|-)?[0-9]{1,3})?

  Btw, it's a surprisingly little known fact that at least in C and C++
things like 10. and 10.e5 are valid floating point literals (besides the
more usual .1 form).

  If you wanted to take that into account in a regexp like the one above,
it actually becomes a bit verbose (so that a lone . wouldn't be considered
a valid floating point literal). Basically you need to write the above twice
(with slight differences, and the two parts separated with a |.)

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                                                          - Warp

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