From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2010-08-12T01:15:48+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] String#to_r (was: "NaN".to_f revisited)

On Aug 11, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Fela Winkelmolen wrote:

>> Might give some strange behaviour though:
>>
>> "1$".to_f             => 1.0
>> "nonsense".to_f       => 0.0
>> "nanotubes".to_f      => Nan ?
>> "inferiority".to_f    => Inf ?
>
> well, it's not so much "stranger" than the following I suppose
>
> "24/7".to_f => 24.0
>


On 1.9, try:

irb> "24/7".to_r
=> (24/7)
irb> _.class
=> Rational

-Rob

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