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From: nagel@blanche.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
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Subject: Re: #include <is.h>
Keywords: something extra...
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Date: 20 Dec 88 21:49:08 GMT
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In-reply-to: matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun NCAA)

In article <354@greens.UUCP>, matthew@sunpix ( Sun NCAA) writes:
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|[BTW, isfloat(); can double for isdouble(); as can isint(); for islong();]
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Gosh, a lexical analyzer -- wish I'd thought of it :-).  Seriously,
though, it would be nice to have something like this be part of the
standard C library so that one could check validity of things like
atoi, etc.

Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Dept of Info and Comp Sci
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