I'm trying to parse a text file which contains some floating point numbers. The number 2.5 is represented by the string "\x002\0.\x005\0". Parse will not convert this to a Float64. Print works (prints "2.5") in Atom and Jupyter, but not in the REPL.
_ _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?help" for help. | | | | | | |/ _` | | | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.5.0 (2016-09-19 18:14 UTC) _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official http://julialang.org/ release |__/ | x86_64-w64-mingw32 julia> print("\x002\0.\x005\0") �2�.�5� julia> parse(Float64,"\x002\0.\x005\0") ERROR: ArgumentError: invalid number format "\x002\0.\x005\0" for Float64 in parse(::Type{Float64}, ::String) at .\parse.jl:167 julia> I am not familiar with Unicode. Is the Unicode valid? How should I convert this to a Float? I do not have control over the input file. Thanks, Chris
