From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2007-09-19T03:19:45+09:00
Subject: Re: converting text

Analogy Analogy wrote:

> I tried cutting and pasting this in SciTE to see if it works...it
> didn't, but thanks for directing me in the right direction.

How does it not work? Both versions work just fine in irb:
>> ["1.80%", "14.50%", "ruby", "3.10%"].map do |string|
>>   string.gsub(/\d+(\.\d+)?/) {|match| "%.1f" % match}
>> end
=> ["1.8%", "14.5%", "ruby", "3.1%"]

>> ["1.80%", "14.50%", "ruby", "3.10%"].map do |string|
>>   string.gsub(/\d+(\.\d+)?/) {|match| match.to_f.to_s}
>> end
=> ["1.8%", "14.5%", "ruby", "3.1%"]


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