[cellml-discussion] Proposal: Standardised CellMLreal numberformat

[David Nickerson]

>>>> So something like (assuming my use of the syntax is correct):
>>>>
>>>> (\+|\-|)[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+|)((E|e)(\+|\-|)[0-9]+)
>>>>
>>>> Note that I have also 'simplified' the exponent part.
>>>>
>>> I don't think the exponent should be mandatory, however, as this would
>>> break the majority of models in use.
>> agreed.
> 
> My bad, since I obviously agree with that. So, we should have:
> 
> (\+|\-|)[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+|)((E|e)(\+|\-|)[0-9]+|) 
> 
> And if I have still got the syntax wrong, then please fix it, so we are done
> and over with it.

while its possibly worth having for illustrative purposes, I'm pretty 
sure we don't want the actual normative definition of the rule to be 
based on a regular expression....do we?