From: Ernest Ellingson <erne@...>
Date: 2006-02-05T08:18:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Scanning a string for decimal numbers

Kent Sibilev wrote:
> "24,4 + 55,2".scan /[\d,]+/
> 
> Kent
> 
> On 2/4/06, Jeppe Jakobsen <jeppe88@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all, how do you scan a string and avoid getting my decimal numbers
>> divided into 2 numbers.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> a = "24,4 + 55,2"
>> a.scan! (/\d+/)
>> puts a
>>
>> my output for a will be:
>> 24
>> 4
>> 55
>> 2
>>
>> But I want to keep my decimal numbers intact like this:
>> 24,4
>> 55,2
>>
>>
>> How do I solve this problem without putting the numbers into seperate
>> strings?
>>
>>
> 
> 
try
a.scan!(/\d+,\d+/)
Ernie

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