Name: rlT66838			Date: 07/28/97


You have changed Float.valueOf() to parse the
entire string (rather than just the first n chars
that are numeric (or decimal).  I understand that
in some cases this is what you want, but I want to
parse off the number even though there is a non
numerical string immediately following it.  It is
especially frustrating becuase you dont offer
any sort of other primitive.  All the float
conversion logic is trapped inside this method with
a silly policy!

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