From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2007-05-04T11:08:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a better way to do this?

On 5/4/07, Harry Kakueki <list.push@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > I am trying to come up with a "generic" formatting routine so that I
> > could feed it something like sform("123456789", "000-00-0000") or
> > sform("1234567890", "(000) 000-0000") or sform("123456", "00/00/00") and
> > it would work.  I could easily do something like you suggest, and for
> > some cases it might be better, but I want something I can for any number
> > of formats.  Thanks for the input.
> >
> >
> Well, that's different :)
> So, you want to grab the first 10 digits and ignore beyond that?
> Look into regular expressions.
> Harry
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This will grab digits and then you can do what you want with them.

arr = ["1234567890", "(123) 867-5309","12/34/56/78/90444"]

arr.each do |x|
num = x.scan(/\d/).join
p num
puts
end

Harry


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