From: Jose francisco Gonzalez carmona <pgonzalez@...>
Date: 2007-11-07T00:31:09+09:00
Subject: Re: convert a string into a decimal

Ernst Tanaka wrote:
> I am a new Ruby programmer. I am really amazed with the ease of
> programming.
> 
> I seem not to be able to find a solution for the following task.
> 
> I want to convert an object with the class string into a object with the
> class fixnum or decimal. So I can store the result in a Decimal(13,2)
> sql field.
> 
> 
> The value of the object string is "100,000,000.00" (including the comma
> and the decimal point.
> 
> Appreciate all the help at for hand!
> 
> Ernst

irb(main):005:0> "100,000,000.00".gsub(',','_').to_f
=> 100000000.0


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