<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">people may want digits as characters in order to see zeros. parsing phone numbers and social security numbers need zeros.<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div>C. Keith Ray</div><div><a href="https://leanpub.com/wepntk" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">https://leanpub.com/wepntk</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;"> <- buy my book?</span></div><div><a href="http://agilesolutionspace.blogspot.com/">http://agilesolutionspace.blogspot.com/</a></div><div>twitter: @ckeithray</div><div><a href="http://www.thirdfoundationsw.com/keith_ray_resume_2014_long.pdf">http://www.thirdfoundationsw.com/keith_ray_resume_2014_long.pdf</a></div></div><div><br>On Jan 16, 2018, at 11:24 AM, Eneko Alonso via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Digits could always be inferred to be numeric (Int) and they should always be “exact” (to match "\d"):</div></blockquote></body></html>