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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients TheBrandonGuy, ezio.melotti, mark.dickinson, mrabarnett, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2020-04-20.09:59:35
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I concur with Mark. It is just an example. The regular expression which would support all possible forms of numbers (including exponent, underscores, non-decimal numbers) would be more complex and would distract from the main goal of the example.
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2020-04-20 09:59:36serhiy.storchakasetrecipients: + serhiy.storchaka, mark.dickinson, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, TheBrandonGuy
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