On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Bryan Vicknair <bryanvick@gmail.com> wrote:

And all of a sudden, the parsing code doesn't work again!:

Prelude Data.Text Lib> validateVal $ pack "0.12"
Success (Just 11)

This might be due to a floating-point roundoff error since 0.12 doesn't have a finite binary representation.

The function truncate does exactly what it says, so truncate (100 * 0.1199999) evaluates to 11.

Are you sure you don't want "round" instead of "truncate"?

-- Kim-Ee