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type conversion string -> float [message #63583]

Fri, 14 November 2008 08:25

pgrigis
Messages: 436
Registered: September 2007

Senior Member

Hi,

does anybody have a simple way to find out
if a string represents a valid float number or not?

For example, it should recognize
43
123.654773
12E-003
5.

as valid numbers,
but should reject

12B45
23-45-2
32EE21
15$

(Note that float() will happy convert 13A2 but not A132...)

Ciao,
Paolo

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