Suresh Jeevanandam wrote:
> I want to convert a string to float value. The string contains
> engineering symbols.
> For example,
>
> s = '12k'
>
> I want some function which would return 12000
> function(s)
> => 12000.0
> I searched the web, but could not find any function.
There's some extensive code in the SI class in BOTEC which does this:
http://www.alcyone.com/software/botec/
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