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 r...@agileconsultingllc.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---