From: Szymon tichy <ssbm2@...2.pl>
Date: 2007-09-19T05:20:09+09:00
Subject: Re: converting text

Hi group (my first post here).

Imo it is only moderately close to perfection ;)

["10.001%", "r00t", "hax0r", "#x80C and #x670"].map do |string|
  string.gsub(/\d+(\.\d+)?/) {|match| "%.1f" % match}
end

==> ["10.0%", "r0.0t", "hax0.0r", "#x80.0C and #x670.0"]