[#401849] If statement — Masoud Ahmadi <lists@...>

Will anyone be able to point out what I am doing wrong.

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[#401987] Trying to get "translator" to work — JD KF <lists@...>

So, basically, I'm trying to get the below code to work properly for

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[#402012] Need help to select some listbox item in different listbox together — Jonathan Masato <lists@...>

Hello,

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[#402045] if n belongs to set a and m belongs to set b repeat some steps, How? — "zubair a." <lists@...>

We can do so in java and similar languages like:

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[#402078] Time.new(2001, 12, 3).to_i returns wrong value — Robert Buck <lists@...>

I am doing something that not many do, I am writing a database driver

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[#402145] How I can create/extract a variable/hash into the current binding in Ruby? — Ramon de C Valle <rcvalle@...>

Hi,

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[#402205] Wondering About Flatiron School — "Kevin Y." <lists@...>

Hi everyone!,

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[#402207] Re: Wondering About Flatiron School — Chad Perrin <code@...> 2012/12/15

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:51:08AM +0900, Kevin Y. wrote:

[#402214] Ruby quick reference arranged in ASCII sequence? — Old Grantonian <lists@...>

As a ruby beginner, I would be grateful for any links to a ruby

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[#402226] print - and strip text between tags using Nokogiri — Paul Mena <lists@...>

I'm a Ruby Newbie trying to write a program to process thousands of HTML

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[#402332] Perl to Ruby: regex captures to assignment. — "Derrick B." <lists@...>

Hello all,

37 messages 2012/12/19
[#402342] Re: Perl to Ruby: regex captures to assignment. — "Derrick B." <lists@...> 2012/12/20

First of all, thanks for the fast responses!

[#402352] Re: Perl to Ruby: regex captures to assignment. — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2012/12/20

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Derrick B. <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

[#402357] Re: Perl to Ruby: regex captures to assignment. — "Derrick B." <lists@...> 2012/12/20

Robert Klemme wrote in post #1089733:

[#402359] trying to strip characters from a line — Paul Mena <lists@...>

I'm reading a table from a MySQL database and then processing it row by

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[#402394] simple division: -9 / 5 = -2 what? — "Derrick B." <lists@...>

$ irb

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[#402412] POLS and string-handling — Paul Magnussen <lists@...>

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[#402460] "Open" dialog of Windows — "Damián M. González" <lists@...>

Hi guys, been researching about pop up the "open" file dialog of

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[#402466] How do I install Ruby on my Ubuntu 12.10 partition. — Kaye Ng <lists@...>

I already have Ruby installed on my Windows 7 partition.

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[#402510] Ruby Association Certified Ruby Programmer — Sean Westfall <lists@...>

How well respected is this certification in the industry: Ruby

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[#402528] Re: Ruby Association Certified Ruby Programmer — Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...> 2012/12/27

On 27 December 2012 01:28, Sean Westfall <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

[#402555] numeric? — Brandon Weaver <keystonelemur@...>

I've found a bit of an annoyance trying to find out if a number is numeric

20 messages 2012/12/27

[#402580] Ruby Koans regarding Hashes. — "Derrick B." <lists@...>

I am trying to understand this, so let me know how I do. :) I know

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[#402609] can't open new ruby program under "new" context menu — "Lee V." <lists@...>

I'm stuck on the new version at trying to do something very simple.

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[#402642] require "test/unit" — "Mattias A." <lists@...>

Hi,

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[#402667] Re: require "test/unit" — "Mattias A." <lists@...> 2012/12/31

Hi Dami=C3=A1n M. Gonz=C3=A1lez!

[#402747] Re: require "test/unit" — "Derrick B." <lists@...> 2013/01/04

Mattias A. wrote in post #1090700:

[#402749] Re: require "test/unit" — sto.mar@... 2013/01/04

Am 04.01.2013 19:48, schrieb Derrick B.:

Re: numeric?

From: Brandon Weaver <keystonelemur@...>
Date: 2012-12-27 18:58:20 UTC
List: ruby-talk #402560
I can't control null returns on certain statements considering it retrieves
data from live devices. If a live device is down it returns null or
similar. There are enough different devices that report different variants
of null that in order to be more flexible, numeric is my most viable
option.
On Dec 27, 2012 12:54 PM, "Tony Arcieri" <tony.arcieri@gmail.com> wrote:

> Float(string) is your best bet. Why is this inadequate? Are you trying to
> decide if a string "looks like a number" but don't want to work with it as
> a number after that?
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Brandon Weaver <keystonelemur@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I've found a bit of an annoyance trying to find out if a number is
>> numeric or not. I thought it would probably be a simple string method but I
>> found far more contrived solutions like regex matches. Eventually I settled
>> on monkey patching string with a Numeric? method using Float(self)! = nil
>> rescue false.
>>
>> Is there a better way to go about this? If not, can we get something
>> added to the core?
>>
>> Thanks for your time,
>>
>> Brandon
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Tony Arcieri
>

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