Hi Larry, On 18 Sep 2011, at 21:37, Larry White wrote:
> Hi, > > I need to convert web input (Strings) to decimal numbers. I have a regex that > will recognize numeric strings, but not all of them can be converted to a > number with asNumber. For example, anything with a leading $+ fails, as does > anything beginning with '.' (even though .3 isNumber answers true.) or '-.' > > Is there any code for dealing with this kind of thing (ie a method to be > called before calling asNumber or a more robust library for string > conversions? Given that all web input is strings and a lot of it is decimal > numbers, i have to believe there is code somewhere that does this safely, > maybe even with tests. :) > > Thanks. Maybe Number class>>#readFrom:ifFail: would be helpful ? Sven
