Re: More results from cluster run on V matrix.

[James Hurt <jhurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Damnation.  Why don't I believe what I read about Java classes?

The description for StreamTokenizer includes:

<quote>
parseNumbers

public void parseNumbers()

    Specifies that numbers should be parsed by this tokenizer. The
syntax table of this tokenizer is modified so that each of the twelve
characters:

      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . -


    has the "numeric" attribute.

    When the parser encounters a word token that has the format of a
double precision floating-point number, it treats the token as a number
rather than a word, by setting the the ttype field to the value
TT_NUMBER and putting the numeric value of the token into the nval field.
</quote>

Translation: Numbers in exponential format (e.g. 2.9e-17) are not
correctly parsed.  The exponential component is missed.

What is the easiest way to modify StreamTokenizer so it will recognize 
numbers in scientific notation?
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James Hurt
Vice President Research & Development
Internet & Computer Institute
Phone: 513-271-4249