From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2007-01-17T03:51:13+09:00
Subject: Re: External to internal conversion

On 1/16/07, Peter Versteegen <pversteegen@gcnetmail.net> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I like to rephrase my problem below by the following interactive
> session:
> >> x =  "1, 12, 500"
> => "1, 12, 500"
> >>  a = x.split(",").map {|k| k.to_i}
> => [1, 12, 500]
> >> y = "[25.0, 26], [30, 31]"
> => "[25.0, 26], [30, 31]"
> >> b = y.split(",").map {|k| k.to_i}
> => [0, 26, 0, 31]
>
> I get what I want in the 4th line, an array of numbers
> I don't get, nor did I expect to, what I want in the last line, i.e., an
> array of arrays.
> How can I convert to an array of arrays?
>

>> input = "[25.0, 26], [30, 31]"
=> "[25.0, 26], [30, 31]"
>> input.scan(/\d+\.?\d*/)
=> ["25.0", "26", "30", "31"]

Something like that?