Jonathan, After further study of your patch, I did notice one flaw: the pattern "*[!A-Fa-f0-9]*" will not match the null string, as your comments suggest it will. And you have deleted the separate case which handles the null string. Here is an improved patch:
http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/parse_numeric.patch I have used a link to it, rather than include the patch inline, since my e-mail client has the nasty habit of expanding tabs, inserting unwanted line breaks, etc. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
