From a1ba8451b98bc51132e9d573b568db66af6dccaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Charles.Forsyth" <devnull@localhost>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:45:27 +0000
Subject: 20070906-1645

---
 man/2/string | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/2/string b/man/2/string
index 9ce877ee..40ac5893 100644
--- a/man/2/string
+++ b/man/2/string
@@ -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
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