From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2007-03-16T12:22:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help converting Perl to Ruby (detecting integers and decimals in strings)

On 3/16/07, Paul <tester.paul@gmail.com> wrote:
> That is brilliant!  Thank you, Jon!  Of all the good suggestions
> posted, I like this one best.  You guys all rock!  Thanks so much for
> the responses.
>
> Cheers!  Paul. =)
>
>
> On Mar 15, 6:22 pm, Jon Garvin wrote:
> > rawfields.map { |f| f.to_f.to_s == f ? "%0.2f" % f.to_f : f }

rawfields.map{|f| Integer(f) rescue Float(f) rescue f}

> > => ["5.67", "0", "3.57", "1.38", "6", "0", "Foo"]
> >
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