[ic] Trying to add products using non-numeric quantities...

[Mark Johnson]

s/(^=)|\D/$1/g;

Enjoy.

Steffen Dettmer wrote:
> 
> * Jeff Carnahan wrote on Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:51 -0700:
> > } You want this w/o the if? I think you can write:
> > }
> > } @quantities = map { s/(^=)?\D/$1/g; $_ }
> > }
> > } or better:
> > }
> > } @quantities = map { s/[^\d=]//g; $_ }
> > }
> > } or maybe faster like:
> > }
> > } #delete unknown (==not 0-9,=) chars and map something(?):
> > } @quantities = map { tr/0-9=//cd; $_ }
> > }
> >
> > The problem was, if the first character is an equals sign,
> > ignore it and strip all non-digits past that FIRST equals sign.
> > ie: "=1=4" should be "=14"
> 
> You mean, ignore any "=" except the first?
> 
> > Of course, that first equals sign is optional, and may not
> > occur at any other location, so "=1a1" should be "=11", "1a=14"
> > should be "114", etc.
> 
> I see, not trivial... Let's try:
> 
> "m/^(=)?/, tr/0-9//cd, $_ = $1 . $_" as expression
> 
> in      out
> =1=4    =14
> 1=4     14
> =1a1    =11
> 1a=14   114
> =1a=14  =114
> =1=2=   =12
> 
> Tested with:
> 
> perl -e '$_ = $ARGV[0];
>         m/^(=)?/, tr/0-9//cd, $_ = $1 . $_;
>         print "$_\n";' =1=2=
> 
> (for you copy and paste test)
> 
> Well, very similar to your thing, maybe not so nice to read,
> maybe a little faster but I think nearly the same :) Sorry, but I
> missed the requirements first :)
> 
> oki,
> 
> Steffen
> 
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