4.3.7 Float

Basic Definition | Formal Definition | Description| Example

Basic Definition

Value Name
FLOAT
Purpose
This value type is used to identify properties that contain a real number value.

Formal Definition

The value type is defined by the following
notation:

  float      = (["+"] / "-") 1*DIGIT ["." 1*DIGIT]

Description

If the property permits, multiple "float" values are specified by a COMMA character (US-ASCII decimal 44) separated list of values.

No additional content value encoding (i.e., BACKSLASH character encoding) is defined for this value type.

Example


  1000000.0000001
  1.333
  -3.14

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