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

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

On that, the standard is clear: [D]DDMM.mmm[m[m]],H (where H is hemisphere).



Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> 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.
> 
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