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authorCharles.Forsyth <devnull@localhost>2007-09-06 15:45:27 +0000
committerCharles.Forsyth <devnull@localhost>2007-09-06 15:45:27 +0000
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@@ -152,6 +152,13 @@ of the form
.IB B r ,
as for integers.
Any exponent is then interpreted as a power of that base.
+Alternatively, following any leading white space and an optional sign, either
+.B nan
+or
+.B infinity
+can appear, in any case, and
+.B toreal
+will return the appropriate value for IEEE floating-point.
.PP
.B Tolower
converts all upper case letters in the string