From: Daniel Baird <danielbaird@...>
Date: 2006-08-04T15:00:34+09:00
Subject: Re: A little regexp help for a newbie.

> > On 8/4/06, Robert Retzbach <rretzbach@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > What about "1a2+b".scan(/\d+) ?
> > > It returns the numbers as array.
>
> Will this pick up negative numbers or floats?
>

Nope, only plain digits.  if you want other stuff, you need to add it
to the regex.
/\d+/  ..is just digits
/[+-]?\d+/  ..optional + or -
/[+-]?\d+\.?\d*/  ..optional + or -, and optional .

untested.. (sorry, too lazy to test :)

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