Serial.parseFloat with leading decimal

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I just ran into the issue of parseFloat not seeing a leading decimal. Trying to get a user to always enter 0.2 is going to be a problem. I did a Google search for the issue and was led to:

which implies to me that the issue was resolved. Am I not understanding the github comments or is something else going on? I'm using one of the later 1.6.7 hourly builds.

Thanks,
Dave

2

As a workaround, you could do something like this:

char ascfloat [20];
if (ascfloat[0] == '.')
{
memmove (&ascfloat[1], &ascfloat[0], 1+strlen(ascfloat));
ascfloat [0] = '0';
}

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Maybe you could make a post in my patch for this to help encourage the Arduino team to merge it. I've had fix for this and other parseFloat/Int issues open for five months now.

This seems to be wanted by many, we just need to show them this fact.

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Just downloaded the nightly build and things are working just fine.
Thanks for the patch.