From: Hemant Kumar <gethemant@...>
Date: 2007-01-28T19:32:13+09:00
Subject: Re: string into array

On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 19:15 +0900, Josselin wrote:
> I have the following string
> id = "(48.88689971942316, 2.3380279541015625)"
> is there any method to transform directly into an array 
> [48.88689971942316, 2.3380279541015625] or should extract both parts 
> and create the array (what I did.. but not very DRY)
> 
> tfyl
> 
> joss
> 
> 

Since, I dunno abt really DRY way of doing that, I would go with this:


class String
  def to_farray
    self.split(',').map {|part| part.gsub(/[()]/,"").to_f}
  end
end
a = "(48.88689971942316, 2.3380279541015625)"
a.to_farray #=> [48.88689971942316, 2.3380279541015625]