Number converter from scientific notation

Overview

This library converts the input text containing a number in scientific notation like:

1234.5678e-2

into a number, represented by the following tuple:

(sign, mantissa-hi-64-bits, mantissa-lo-64-bits, exponent)

Example

use scidec::{Number, number_from_string};

let result = number_from_string("1234.5678e-2");
match result {
  Number::Fin(false, 0, 12345678, -6) => {}
  _ => panic!()
}

License

Licensed under either of

• MIT license (see LICENSE-MIT) or
• Apache License, Version 2.0 (see LICENSE and NOTICE)

at your option.

Contribution

Any contributions to scidec are greatly appreciated. All contributions intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.