From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2006-02-05T21:14:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Scanning a string for decimal numbers


On Feb 5, 2006, at 13:03, Antonio Cangiano wrote:

>> a.scan /[-+]?[0-9]*\,?[0-9]+/
>
> Or to be less verbose you can use \d in place of [0-9] :-)

If you have Perl installed, the incantation

     perldoc -q float

gives some regexps for numbers.

-- fxn