From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-06-20T08:01:11+09:00
Subject: Re: RegEx

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Mikael Høilund <mikael@hoilund.org> wrote:
>
> On Jun 20, 2008, at 0:12, Justin To wrote:
>
>> I'm stuck trying to write a regular expression for a percentage:
>>
>> Examples of what I'm trying to match:
>>
>> 1.1, 1.12, 12, 12.1 and 12.12
>>
>> 0.00 <= float <= 100.00
>>
>
>
> Perhaps try /\d?\d(\.\d\d?)?|100(\.00?)?/ (untested).

fails for 2100.0123 - you need to anchor with ^ and $ or at least \D and \D

also fails for .1 (though to be fair ruby rejects that too :))

martin