From: MaggotChild <hsomob1999@...>
Date: 2009-12-02T13:30:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Float Arithmetic: Return A Fixnum When Float == Fixnum

On Dec 1, 12:24 pm, "Glen F. Pankow" <Glen.F.Pan...@noaa.gov> wrote:
>> MaggotChild wrote:
>>
>> j == j.to_i ? j.to_i : j
>> => 2
>> Is there a "better" way?
>
> Ugly, but what the hey:
>
> j = 2.0
> sprintf('%g', j) --> "2"
>
> j = 2.50000001
> sprintf('%g', j) --> "2.5"
>
> Works on integers, too:
>
> j = 2
> sprintf('%g', j) --> "2"

Ah, I knew it -a better way. And to think, it was with a printf
format... All those years of C down the toilet