From 3e9fab3bfc6f869c0d7be02e50ebe27818784707 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tyson Grant Nottingham <tgnottingham@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:43:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Allow numbers starting with decimal in fast_atof.

---
 code/fast_atof.h | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/code/fast_atof.h b/code/fast_atof.h
index ddda1f29e..a7f0cb23f 100644
--- a/code/fast_atof.h
+++ b/code/fast_atof.h
@@ -229,14 +229,25 @@ inline uint64_t strtoul10_64( const char* in, const char** out=0, unsigned int*
 template <typename Real>
 inline const char* fast_atoreal_move( const char* c, Real& out, bool check_comma = true)
 {
-	Real f;
+	Real f = 0;
 
 	bool inv = (*c == '-');
 	if (inv || *c == '+') {
 		++c;
 	}
 
-	f = static_cast<Real>( strtoul10_64 ( c, &c) );
+        if (!isdigit(*c) && !(*c == '.' && isdigit(c[1])))
+        {
+                throw std::invalid_argument("Cannot parse string "
+                        "as real number: does not start with digit "
+                        "or decimal point followed by digit.");
+        }
+
+        if (*c != '.')
+        {
+                f = static_cast<Real>( strtoul10_64 ( c, &c) );
+        }
+
 	if ((*c == '.' || (check_comma && c[0] == ',')) && c[1] >= '0' && c[1] <= '9')
 	{
 		++c;