On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 19:34 -0500, Bjorn Buckwalter wrote: > Hi all, > > What is your preferred method of parsing floating point numbers (from > String to Float/Double)? Parsec it seems only does positive floats out > of the box and PolyParse requires the float to be on scientific form > (exponential). While I've worked around these shortcomings in the past > I feel that I am reinventing the wheel as surely I am not the only to > run into these limitations. How do you parse your floats? Can you > recommend a parsing library that handles them solidly? > > (For my current needs the formats accepted by "read" are sufficient, > but I want reasonable error handling (Maybe or Either) instead of an > exception on bad inputs.)
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