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diff --git a/doc/lispref/strings.texi b/doc/lispref/strings.texi index 5ae86754999..61e44fbafac 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/strings.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/strings.texi @@ -622,10 +622,8 @@ but its value is too large to fit into a Lisp integer, The parsing skips spaces and tabs at the beginning of @var{string}, then reads as much of @var{string} as it can interpret as a number in the given base. (On some systems it ignores other whitespace at the -beginning, not just spaces and tabs.) If the first character after -the ignored whitespace is neither a digit in the given base, nor a -plus or minus sign, nor the leading dot of a floating point number, -this function returns 0. +beginning, not just spaces and tabs.) If @var{string} cannot be +interpreted as a number, this function returns 0. @example (string-to-number "256") |