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Id: 133216
Status: patched
Priority: 0/
Queue: Getopt-Long
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Owner: jv [...] cpan.org
Requestors: dima [...] secretsauce.net
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  Sat Aug 22 08:46:57 2020 dima [...] secretsauce.net - Ticket created
Subject: GetOptions() does not accept values like "5." as valid floating point
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 05:37:36 -0700
To: bug-Getopt-Long [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Dima Kogan <dima [...] secretsauce.net>
Hi. Here's a demo program: use Getopt::Long; my %opt; @ARGV=("cmd", "--opt", "5."); GetOptions(\%opt, 'opt=f'); I'm telling the option parser to expect a --opt option with a floating-point argument. This generally works. But when I give it "5." as the argument string, it barfs: Value "5." invalid for option opt (real number expected) This is simply wrong. Strings like that are valid floats in perl and everywhere else that I've seen. Thanks.
  Sat Aug 22 15:03:29 2020 jv [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Wow... Just before Getopt::Long's 30th birthday someone notices this :).
  Sat Aug 22 15:03:29 2020 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sat Aug 22 15:03:30 2020 jv [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'patched'
  Sat Aug 22 15:03:30 2020 jv [...] cpan.org - Taken
  Sat Aug 22 15:43:10 2020 dima [...] secretsauce.net - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #133216] GetOptions() does not accept values like "5." as valid floating point
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 12:43:01 -0700
To: bug-Getopt-Long [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Dima Kogan <dima [...] secretsauce.net>
May the next 30 years be slightly less buggy :) Thanks for patching.