From: Jean-Julien Fleck <jeanjulien.fleck@...>
Date: 2010-04-14T22:39:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Method to groom a string to floating point representation

Hello Alex,

> The user is still aware if they entered an incorrect string, since they
> are entering it into a GUI textbox, and the string cleaning is done
> after each character is entered.  Thus, if they try to enter a misplaced
> + sign or another bad character, they won't see it appear in the
> textbox, which should cause them to notice it.

Well, then you can't use the Float() trick because 1.0e3 is a valid
but 1.0e is not.
Then there will be a lot of strings your user won't be able to type
even if they are valid in the end.

Cheers,

-- 
JJ Fleck
PCSI1 Lycée Kléber