From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-01-11T02:59:41+09:00
Subject: Hexadecimal float (Re: regexen for strings that can be converted to numbers)

Hi,

At Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:59:41 +0900,
Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> wrote:
> > class String
> >   def to_number
> >     Integer(self) rescue Float(self) rescue self
> >   end
> > end
> 
> Elegance lies in the beauty of condensed truth :)

I found;

  "0x_0".to_number	# => 0.0
  "0x1.0".to_number	# => 0.0
  "0x1.01".to_number	# => 1.00390625

strtod() on Linux (or glibc) seems to accept radix prefix.
Is this Linux specific?  Also intended?

-- 
Nobu Nakada