[Gpsd-dev] Re: [Xastir] SiRF GPRMC bug? and GPGGA format

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 17 May 2005, Henk de Groot wrote:

> The way I parse GPS sentences in DIGI_NED is just to tokenize on the comma's

What belongs to comma that you wish to tokenize? ;-)

> and then interpret the values as a float (scanf it) - regardless of leading 
> zeros and decimal percision. This should work for all different ways to 
> present the degrees, zero padded on not and with 1 or 10 digits behind the 
> point.

Yes, but... you still need to know whether it's DDMM.SSsss or DD.ddddd or 
DDMM.mmmmm or whatever.

So presumably that has to come from the standard.