Floating-point number matches

The floating-point number pattern matches a string of numeric characters that may or may not be preceded by a minus sign, and that may or may not include a decimal point followed by other numbers. Any non-numeric character except for a period or a dash (minus sign) is not valid for floating-point matches.

For example, this script matches each number and the corresponding end-of-line. Only the value of float is assigned to the variable so there are no extra lines between the lines of output.

ASL Script (float_matches.asl):
START {
 a:float eol
}
do {
 print("Matched with ".a);
}
DEFAULT {
 ..eol
}
do {
 print("Failed match");
}
Input (float_match.txt):
173
-3.95
3453.45
Output:
$ sm_adapter --file=float_match.txt float_match.asl
Matched with 173
Matched with -3.95
Matched with 3453.45
$