a number of places where i found this to be a cereal problem where you won't suspect them:
Credit Card Validators (checks first if given string is a number) (Pentaho Data Integration) Version Numbers (in xml headers) (Xstream) and to my surprise HTTP headers (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616- sec3.html#sec3.9) (Spring Framework et al) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.