From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-02-05T11:47:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Scanning a string for decimal numbers

On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Ernest Ellingson wrote:

> 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

careful.  you'll kill negatives.

-a

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