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From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: How to check if a string represent an elisp number (including float),  without trailing garbage
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 21:38:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1mhr8b4.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu> (raw)

`number-to-string' ignores garbage so that falsify the output for any
string beginning with a number but not being one, `cl-parse-integer'
raise an error instead of returning nil, and doesn’t support float,
`read' ignores trailing-garbage.

I’d like something that would work depending on elisp reading of
numbers, not regexps or some redundant specification of it, and
preferably cleaner than “(let ((num (string-to-number str))) (and num
(equal (number-to-string num))))” or anything converting back-and-forth.



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