[collectd] Double output in plugin-cvs

[Florian Forster]

Hi Bill,

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:14:34AM -0500, Bill Harris wrote:
> I guess the question is which is more palatable for other programs
> like gnuplot, or other charting programs to plot?  Or does it matter?

I don't think it matters. All programs use “strtod” or the brain-dead
little brother “atof” to convert strings to doubles. And both can handle
either format without problems.

(Of course there are exceptions, but I don't think they're worth talking
 about. They either have a specific need for an anternative
 implementation (which is broken if it can't handle those numbers) or
 the programmer should fix his or her program.)

Regards,
—octo
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