> Perhaps we can use an existing standard for the ascii parsing. How
> about saying that all ascii representations are acceptable so long
> as Java, Python, Perl and C can all recognize it? So you can say
> 3.5E-6 or 3.5e-6 but you can't say 3.5D-6.
>
> Note that this allows "3h 47m 36.3s" as a valid string, but not as
> a valid float or double.
Sounds like what we really have is a concise justification for a "TableFixer" web service. Received on 2006-04-20Z22:03:41