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Doc Bug #45205 Floating point syntax
Submitted: 2008-06-08 11:20 UTC Modified: 2008-08-19 13:07 UTC
From: chrisvroberts at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: n/a
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-06-08 11:20 UTC] chrisvroberts at gmail dot com 
Description:
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On "http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.float.php", the defined syntax for floating point values appears to be incorrect:

LNUM          [0-9]+
DNUM          ([0-9]*[\.]{LNUM}) | ({LNUM}[\.][0-9]*)
EXPONENT_DNUM (({LNUM} | {DNUM}) [eE][+-]? {LNUM}) 

This does not allow negative floating point values. Presumably it should be:

LNUM          [0-9]+
DNUM          ([0-9]*[\.]{LNUM}) | ({LNUM}[\.][0-9]*)
EXPONENT_DNUM [+-]?(({LNUM} | {DNUM}) [eE][+-]? {LNUM})

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 [2008-08-19 13:07 UTC] kalle@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better.
 
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