Ah, that is a horse of a different colour.
We need to define the types of numbers you might have and how lenient you
are willing to get...for instance, can you have data such as
1.3e2
1-3 (number or not?)
The solution depends on your input data set.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Angus Laycock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tanton Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: Creating a string with quotes and delimiters from an Array
> What about on negative numbers like -1? They come up with quotes, any
ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Gus
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tanton Gibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Angus Laycock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 10:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Creating a string with quotes and delimiters from an Array
>
>
> > I apologize for not stating it earlier...mea culpa (and if I didn't have
> the
> > time, I shouldn't post to the beginners list anyway!)
> >
> > the ? : operator is like an if else statement
> > if actually expands to (sort of)
> >
> > if( /\D/ ) {
> > $string .= "'$_',";
> > }
> > else {
> > $string .= "$_,";
> > }
> >
> > The regular expression /\D/ matches anything that is not a digit. Since
> we
> > do not provide a variable for it to operate on, it chooses the default
> > variable $_ which is set by the preceeding foreach loop. The .= is the
> > string concatenation operator with assignment...it actually expands to
> > $string = $string . "'$_',";
> >
> > Hope this helps!
> > Tanton
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Angus Laycock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 1:33 PM
> > Subject: Re: Creating a string with quotes and delimiters from an Array
> >
> >
> > > I know I now have the result but how does it do it?
> > >
> > > $string .= /\D/ ? "'$_'," : "$_,";
> > >
> > > If you have the time.
> > >
> > > Thanks again
> > >
> > > Gus
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Tanton Gibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: Angus Laycock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 10:30 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Creating a string with quotes and delimiters from an
Array
> > >
> > >
> > > > Your best bet is to do this with a foreach loop
> > > >
> > > > my $string = '';
> > > > my @array = qw( alf bert charlie 4 )
> > > > foreach( @array ) {
> > > > $string .= /\D/ ? "'$_'," : "$_,";
> > > > }
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Angus Laycock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 1:07 PM
> > > > Subject: Creating a string with quotes and delimiters from an Array
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have an array ----> @array = qw(alf bert charlie 4)
> > > >
> > > > and I want a string that contains this value <
> > 'alf','bert','charlie','4'
> > > >
> > > > with the single quotes and commas.
> > > >
> > > > I know I can do this $string = join ( ',' , @array); which gives me
> > > > this ----> < one|two|three|four> but how do I get the single quotes
> > around
> > > > each word.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Also, how can I check if one of the values is numeric so I dont put
> > quotes
> > > > around it? So the result is like this ---> <
'alf','bert','charlie',4
> >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Gus
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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