Sorry, I didn't read your first posting fully. My solution will not work for the case of 482.600.
Pepe On Feb 28, 10:12 am, pepe <[email protected]> wrote: > string = '10.0' > string.sub!(/\.\d+/, '') > > This will replace in place (sub!) any dot (\.) followed by at least > one number (\d+) with nothing (''). > > Pepe > > On Feb 27, 4:37 pm, northband_101 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
