On Jul 13, 10:18 am, Yorick Peterse <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeremy, > > Ah, that makes sense. Though after having played with it it seems it's not > very hard to detect whether or not the specified > string is actually converted correctly: > > 'hello123'.to_f # => 0.0 > 'h'.to_f # => 0.0 > > Based on this you could do something like the following: > > input = '12' > converted = input.to_f > > if input !== '0.0' and converted === 0.0 > raise(ArgumentError, '....') > end
That falls down quickly. What if input is '0.00'? There's no point in doing a non-strict conversion and then checking the input depending on the output. If you want to have any strictness at all, you should do a strict conversion. Jeremy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sequel-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/sequel-talk?hl=en.
