Bug#697017: An improved patch over Jonathan's

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

Jonathan,

After further study of your patch, I did notice one flaw: the pattern
"*[!A-Fa-f0-9]*" will not match the null string, as your comments suggest
it will.  And you have deleted the separate case which handles the null
string.  Here is an improved patch:

   http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/parse_numeric.patch

I have used a link to it, rather than include the patch inline, since
my e-mail client has the nasty habit of expanding tabs, inserting unwanted
line breaks, etc.

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