From: saladin.mundi@...
Date: 2007-11-24T22:10:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Convert words to numbers and back?

I don't know exactly what you mean.
Do you have something like: "123"  <- a String which you want to conert into 
an integer? like 123 ?

if so, there are these functions:

str.to_i(base=10) => integer

Returns the result of interpreting leading characters in str as an integer 
base base (2, 8, 10, or 16). Extraneous characters past the end of a valid 
number are ignored. If there is not a valid number at the start of str, 0 is 
returned. This method never raises an exception.

   "12345".to_i             #=> 12345
   "99 red balloons".to_i   #=> 99
   "0a".to_i                #=> 0
   "0a".to_i(16)            #=> 10
   "hello".to_i             #=> 0
   "1100101".to_i(2)        #=> 101
   "1100101".to_i(8)        #=> 294977
   "1100101".to_i(10)       #=> 1100101
   "1100101".to_i(16)       #=> 17826049
orstr.to_f => floatReturns the result of interpreting leading characters in 
str as a floating point number. Extraneous characters past the end of a 
valid number are ignored. If there is not a valid number at the start of 
str, 0.0 is returned. This method never raises an exception. 
"123.45e1".to_f        #=> 1234.5
   "45.67 degrees".to_f   #=> 45.67
   "thx1138".to_f         #=> 0.0
bye sala----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrei Maxim" <andrei@andreimaxim.ro>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: Convert words to numbers and back?


> Check http://www.deveiate.org/projects/Linguistics/
> I think numwords is what you are looking for.
>
> On 11/24/07, Jordon Bedwell <jordon@envygeeks.com> wrote:
>>
>> I was wondering if somebody could give me some insight and help on how
>> to convert words to numbers and back again. Maybe a function?
>> --
>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>>
>>
> -- 
> Andrei Maxim
> http://andreimaxim.ro
>