package dtoa

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Converts OCaml floats into strings, using the efficient Grisu3 algorithm

Install

Dune Dependency

Authors

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Sources

dtoa-0.1.tar.gz
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Description

A library for converting floats to strings (doubles to ascii, "d to a").

This is a (partial) port of Google's double-conversion library from C++ to C.

Published: 18 May 2017

README

ocaml-dtoa

This library provides a function that converts OCaml floats into strings, using the efficient Grisu3 algorithm.

The Grisu3 algorithm is described in "Printing Floating-Point Numbers Quickly And Accurately with Integers" by Florian Loitsch.

The implementation is adapted from double-conversion.

Current Status

Currently, this library exposes three functions:

  • ecma_string_of_float : float -> string: formats the float according to the ECMAScript specification's implementation of Number.prototype.toString. Notably, the output of this function is valid JSON.

  • shortest_string_of_float : float -> string: formats the float as compactly as possible, for example returning 123e6 instead of 123000000 or 1.23e+08.

  • g_fmt : float -> string: formats the float in the same way as David M. Gay's g_fmt.

The underlying fast_dtoa() function computes the significand and exponent, which are formatted by the above functions in dtoa_stubs.c. It is a port of the double-conversion library from C++ to C.

Many features of double-conversion are still missing. Patches are welcome!

License

ocaml-dtoa is BSD-licensed. We also provide an additional patent grant.

Author

ocaml-dtoa was created by Facebook for the Flow project.

Dependencies (5)

  1. topkg build & >= "0.9.0"
  2. ocb-stubblr build
  3. ocamlbuild build
  4. ocamlfind build
  5. ocaml >= "4.01.0"

Dev Dependencies (1)

  1. ounit with-test & >= "2.0.0"

Used by (1)

  1. flow_parser >= "0.62.0" & < "0.159.0"

Conflicts

None