parse_string SciMax Toolbox part

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parsetoken

Maxima Function

Calling Sequence

parsetoken (string)

Description

parsetoken converts the first token in string to the corresponding number or returns false if the number cannot be determined . The delimiter set for tokenizing is {space, comma, semicolon, tab, newline}.

(%i1) 2*parsetoken("1.234 5.678");
(%o1)                         2.468

For parsing you can also use function parse_string. See description in file 'share\contrib\eval_string.lisp'.

parse_string SciMax Toolbox part