Jeremy, I never said it was a clean solution, just a possible idea ;)
Yorick On 13 July 2011 19:40, Jeremy Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
