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(String Conversion) <string-to-number>: Document
that a float is returned for integers that are too large.
author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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date | Sat, 08 Sep 2001 17:41:41 +0000 |
parents | dc7cb360c349 |
children | 23a1cea22d13 |
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534 This function returns the numeric value of the characters in | 534 This function returns the numeric value of the characters in |
535 @var{string}. If @var{base} is non-@code{nil}, integers are converted | 535 @var{string}. If @var{base} is non-@code{nil}, integers are converted |
536 in that base. If @var{base} is @code{nil}, then base ten is used. | 536 in that base. If @var{base} is @code{nil}, then base ten is used. |
537 Floating point conversion always uses base ten; we have not implemented | 537 Floating point conversion always uses base ten; we have not implemented |
538 other radices for floating point numbers, because that would be much | 538 other radices for floating point numbers, because that would be much |
539 more work and does not seem useful. | 539 more work and does not seem useful. If @var{string} looks like an |
540 integer but its value is too large to fit into a Lisp integer, | |
541 @code{string-to-number} returns a floating point result. | |
540 | 542 |
541 The parsing skips spaces and tabs at the beginning of @var{string}, then | 543 The parsing skips spaces and tabs at the beginning of @var{string}, then |
542 reads as much of @var{string} as it can interpret as a number. (On some | 544 reads as much of @var{string} as it can interpret as a number. (On some |
543 systems it ignores other whitespace at the beginning, not just spaces | 545 systems it ignores other whitespace at the beginning, not just spaces |
544 and tabs.) If the first character after the ignored whitespace is | 546 and tabs.) If the first character after the ignored whitespace is |