Timeline for How can I improve NumberString?
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| Feb 12, 2015 at 19:22 | comment | added | Simon Woods | @Mr.Wizard, the new pattern is definitely cleaner and it appears to work perfectly. Thank you. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 19:10 | comment | added | Mr.Wizard | Simon, I updated my answer with what I think is a much cleaner pattern. Would you please test it? If it passes I'll probably remove the old one entirely. | |
| Feb 9, 2015 at 9:18 | vote | accept | Simon Woods | ||
| Feb 4, 2015 at 7:50 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackMma/status/562880898006540289 | ||
| Feb 3, 2015 at 21:50 | comment | added | Simon Woods | @ChipHurst, for my needs I just need to handle explicit numbers with precision marks and scientific notation, though if you have a method that can handle named constants too it would be interesting to see it. My original problem was to examine the box form of expressions and determine whether strings containing a backtick were numbers or symbols with context marks. I was surprised to discover that NumberString didn't work for this. | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 19:30 | comment | added | Greg Hurst | "I would like to test strings to see if they represent numbers." How strict are we talking here? Do you want the string "EulerGamma" to be considered a number, or are you referring to number in the sense of NumberQ? | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 18:55 | answer | added | Kuba | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 15:24 | answer | added | wuyingddg | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 15:22 | comment | added | Simon Woods | @Mr.Wizard, no, I'm not planning to self answer. Yes, safety is basically the only reason - it would be okay to create a held expression for example. | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 15:17 | answer | added | Mr.Wizard | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 14:57 | comment | added | Mr.Wizard | Also, is your reason for not converting to expressions only for safety as stated? | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 14:56 | comment | added | Mr.Wizard | Are you going to self-answer? I may dig into this if not. | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 14:18 | history | asked | Simon Woods | CC BY-SA 3.0 |