A. Costa wrote:
>     Parse the leading number prefixes to find the input data format.
>     Then check the rest of the string, if it's not the right format,
>     return an error.  e.g.:
> 
>       i 1abc234 ; echo $?
>       i: error '1abc234' is not a decimal number.
>       2

I prefer to just document that behaviour then. The idea of iprint is to
be very, very simple. I don't think you can consider this "losing data".

I'll change the manpage to make that clear.


Thijs



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