Pat George
11/6/2007 3:32:00 PM
Ruby newb incoming:
Since his string is "100,000,000.00" to_f won't work:
irb(main):001:0> a = "100,000,000.00"
=> "100,000,000.00"
irb(main):002:0> a.to_f
=> 100.0
Only thing I could think of was to gsub! it first and get rid of the commas:
irb(main):001:0> a = "100,000,000.00"
=> "100,000,000.00"
irb(main):003:0> a.gsub!(/,/, '')
=> "100000000.00"
irb(main):004:0> a.to_f
=> 100000000.0
Any other way?
Paulo Carvalho wrote:
> > a="100000000.00"
> > a.to_f
> => 100000000.0
>
>
> Ernst Tanaka wrote:
>
>> I am a new Ruby programmer. I am really amazed with the ease of
>> programming.
>>
>> I seem not to be able to find a solution for the following task.
>>
>> I want to convert an object with the class string into a object with the
>> class fixnum or decimal. So I can store the result in a Decimal(13,2)
>> sql field.
>>
>>
>> The value of the object string is "100,000,000.00" (including the comma
>> and the decimal point.
>>
>> Appreciate all the help at for hand!
>>
>> Ernst
>>
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