[erlang-questions] list_to_float()

[Richard Carlsson]

Alpár Jüttner wrote:
> I've just noticed that
> 
> 1> list_to_float("22").
> ** exception error: bad argument
>      in function  list_to_float/1
>         called as list_to_float("22")
> 
> Is this a bug or a feature?

It's a "feature": list_to_float/1 is a rather low level function,
which assumes that you have already checked that the string has the
proper form for an Erlang float, i.e., "0.0" and "1.0E-3" are ok,
but "22", ".0", and "0." are not.

    /Richard