From: Matthew Rudy <matthewrudyjacobs@...>
Date: 2007-09-19T00:03:20+09:00
Subject: Re: converting text

John Joyce wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Analogy Analogy wrote:
> 
>> [1.80%, 14.50%, ruby, 3.10%]
> Those are not numbers.
> They will be strings.
> If you want numbers you'll need to do some work to first remove the %
> characters and then convert them to_f (because they're conceptually
> floats) After that Ruby will by default lop off the trailing 0's
> But you won't have that % character on them.
> If you need to use that format and use it a lot, create a class for
> them.

I believe String#to_f lops off any trailing characters.

ie. "1.80%".to_f -> 1.8,
it does on my windows install of 1.8.5 at least.
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