From 58105b064d77696d6d34db57128b16e60cc6c6d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dima Kogan <dkogan@cds.caltech.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:28:51 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] better 'number' regexp

---
 bin/feedGnuplot | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bin/feedGnuplot b/bin/feedGnuplot
index 5ff1065..9b76335 100755
--- a/bin/feedGnuplot
+++ b/bin/feedGnuplot
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ sub mainThread
     }
 
     # regexp for a possibly floating point, possibly scientific notation number
-    my $numRE   = '[-]?[\d\.]+(?:e[-+]?\d+)?';
+    my $numRE   = '-?\d*\.?\d+(?:[Ee][-+]?\d+)?';
 
     # a point may be preceded by an id
     my $pointRE = $options{dataid} ? '(\w+)\s+' : '()';