From: Dmitry Buzdin <buzdin@...>
Date: 2006-11-17T23:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Nuby question - printing substring as non-ASCII

Then why not call to_i on a whole string?

"   1    45.3456   ".to_i
"   1    45.3456   ".to_f

It will find the first number and convert it to Fixnum or Float.

Dmitry

Thomas Luedeke wrote:
> I'm reading in a string of numbers, as follows:
>
> "   1    45.3456   "
>
> How do I write out the first non-whitespace element as a number?  Ruby
> wants to express as it in ASCII, and the .to_i method doesn't seem to
> work on a substring.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> TPL
> 
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