From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-03-18T11:00:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help converting Perl to Ruby (detecting integers and decimals in strings)

Hi --

On 3/15/07, Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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}

That doesn't produce the desired output.


David

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