From: email55555@...
Date: 2005-09-22T23:41:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing one-liners

If your numbers are *true* floats (for example 123.0 instead of 123),
then you could try this:

w = eval("[#{input_string}]")


Kevin Olbrich wrote:
> The problem:
> 	read in a string containing an arbitrary number of comma separated
> numbers and convert it to an array of numbers.
>
> It seems like this could be a one-liner, but the best I can get is two...
>
> w=input_string.split(/,\s*/)
> w.each_index {|n| w[n]=w[n].to_f}
> 
> Anyone know a one-liner for this?
> 
> _Kevin