From: Jeppe Jakobsen <jeppe88@...>
Date: 2006-02-12T08:49:16+09:00
Subject: Scanning a string for decimal numbers

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Nice, that was the thing I was looking for :)

2006/2/12, Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com>:
>
> 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 =3D "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?
> >
> This should handle periods or commas as the separator.
>
> a =3D "24,4 + 55,2 + 55 - 44,0"
>    =3D> "24,4 + 55,2 + 55 - 44,0"
> a.scan /(\d+,?.?\d*)(?=3D\s|$)/
>    =3D> [["24,4"], ["55,2"], ["55"], ["44,0"]]
>
>

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