From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-01-11T01:37:13+09:00
Subject: Re: regexen for strings that can be converted to numbers

Hi,

At Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:58:17 +0900,
Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> wrote:
> what are the regexen for strings that can be converted to various types 
> of numbers?
> 
> Or: how can the following be extended and/or corrected?

class String
  def to_number
    Integer(self) rescue Float(self) rescue self
  end
end

-- 
Nobu Nakada