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                | Expression | 
                ^[-+]?[0-9]+[.]?[0-9]*([eE][-+]?[0-9]+)?$  | 
            
            
                | Description | 
                This matches floating point expression in a more rigorous way - accepts both exponent as well as non exponent notations.  | 
            
            
                | Matches | 
                123 | -123.35 | -123.35e-2  | 
            
            
                | Non-Matches | 
                abc | 123.32e | 123.32.3  | 
            
            
                | Author | 
                
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                    Srinivas Gummadi
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	                Title: Leading decimals not allowed
	                Name: Jesse Pelton
	                Date: 5/24/2012 11:55:10 AM
	                Comment: 
This pattern does not match inputs like ".9", "-.9", and "+.9".  This first character after the optional sign must be a decimal digit.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Doesn't work for all expressions
	                Name: Dave Uhrenholdt
	                Date: 10/20/2004 10:01:03 AM
	                Comment: 
Doesn't work for .0