Parsing scientific notation sensibly?
问题 I want to be able to write a function which receives a number in scientific notation as a string and splits out of it the coefficient and the exponent as separate items. I could just use a regular expression, but the incoming number may not be normalised and I\'d prefer to be able to normalise and then break the parts out. A colleague has got part way of an solution using VB6 but it\'s not quite there, as the transcript below shows. cliVe> a = 1e6 cliVe> ? \"coeff: \" & o.spt(a) & \" exponent