From: Mark Somerville <ms@...>
Date: 2007-03-13T20:08:07+09:00
Subject: BigDecimal bug?

Hello,

Can anyone tell me if this is a bug? It certainly seems like it to me.

>> BigDecimal.new("-.31").to_s
=> "0.31"

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-04 patchlevel 2) [x86_64-linux]

I have tried altering the BigDecimal initialisation code, without success.
Does anyone have any clues as to how to workaround this issue without
pre-processing the "-.31" string? I'd think I could alter the "new" call to
alter the malformed string a little.

Thanks a lot in advance,

Mark