Awesome - this is a start - I'll take it from here. Thanks!
On Feb 27, 4:14 pm, Rob Biedenharn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 27, 2009, at 2:47 PM, northband wrote: > > > > > > > Hi - > > > I would like to use gsub() to strip decimals with trailing zeros from > > a string. My string looks like this: > > -- > > 19.0 " / 482.600 mm > > -- > > > I would like to end up with this: > > -- > > 19 " / 482.6 mm > > -- > > > Anyone have a regular expression that can do this? > > > Thanks! > > It depends on how you make the string. > > "19.0".sub(/\.?0+\z/,'') #=> "19" > "482.600".sub(/\.?0+\z/,'') #=> "482.6" > > If you replace \z with (\D|\z) and substitute '\1', it might work. > (You can try it out yourself.) > > -Rob > > Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com > [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
