Question about digits

While playing a little with Ruby, I've been looking for a function
each_digit, or something similar, and I couldn't find any (standard
nor library). I think it'd be useful to have a function like that.
It's pretty simple to implement one for Integers

class Integer
    def each_digit(base = 10, &block)
        return if zero?
        (self/base).each_digit(base, &block)
        yield self % base
    end
end

A first approach. Of course, it would be a little more complicated for
negatives and Floats, specially dealing with precision.

What do you think?

class Integer
    def each_digit(base=10)
        to_s( base ).each_byte{ |b| yield b.chr }
    end #def each_digit(base=10)
end

Cheers
Robert

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On 1/28/07, CHubas <CHubas7@gmail.com> wrote:

While playing a little with Ruby, I've been looking for a function
each_digit, or something similar, and I couldn't find any (standard
nor library). I think it'd be useful to have a function like that.
It's pretty simple to implement one for Integers

class Integer
    def each_digit(base = 10, &block)
        return if zero?
        (self/base).each_digit(base, &block)
        yield self % base
    end
end

A first approach. Of course, it would be a little more complicated for
negatives and Floats, specially dealing with precision.

What do you think?

--
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- Alan Kay

Good. I'd expect each_digit to return strings though, since a digit is a symbol, not a number:

   class Integer
     def each_digit(base=10)
       abs.to_s(base).each_byte do |b|
         yield b.chr
       end
     end
   end

-- fxn

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On Jan 28, 2007, at 12:35 AM, CHubas wrote:

While playing a little with Ruby, I've been looking for a function
each_digit, or something similar, and I couldn't find any (standard
nor library). I think it'd be useful to have a function like that.
It's pretty simple to implement one for Integers

class Integer
    def each_digit(base = 10, &block)
        return if zero?
        (self/base).each_digit(base, &block)
        yield self % base
    end
end

A first approach. Of course, it would be a little more complicated for
negatives and Floats, specially dealing with precision.

Why call them digits, if you can call them characters?

If you have got arbitrary_number, you got arbitrary_number.to_s so:

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----
irb(main):001:0> arbitrary_number=123
=> 123
irb(main):002:0> arbitrary_number.to_s
=> "123"
irb(main):002:0> arbitrary_number.to_s.length
=> 3
irb(main):003:0> (0...arbitrary_number.to_s.length).map{|digit|
arbitrary_number.to_s.split('')[digit]}
=> ["1","2","3"]
----

This above will do for base 10, and printf stuff may help with hex,
oct at least.

Remember it is '...' and not '..' so you don't access
arbitrary_number[arbitrary_number.length]

Hope this may help you

> While playing a little with Ruby, I've been looking for a function
> each_digit, or something similar, and I couldn't find any (standard
> nor library). I think it'd be useful to have a function like that.
> It's pretty simple to implement one for Integers
>
> class Integer
> def each_digit(base = 10, &block)
> return if zero?
> (self/base).each_digit(base, &block)
> yield self % base
> end
> end
>
> A first approach. Of course, it would be a little more complicated for
> negatives and Floats, specially dealing with precision.

Good. I'd expect each_digit to return strings though, since a digit
is a symbol, not a number:

   class Integer
     def each_digit(base=10, want_sign=false)

           yield '-' if want_sign && self < 0 # to continue debugging
my code;)

       abs.to_s(base).each_byte do |b|

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On 1/28/07, Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> wrote:

On Jan 28, 2007, at 12:35 AM, CHubas wrote:
         yield b.chr
       end
     end
   end

-- fxn

--
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- Alan Kay

Why call them digits, if you can call them characters?

If you have got arbitrary_number, you got arbitrary_number.to_s so:

[... snip]

This above will do for base 10, and printf stuff may help with hex,
oct at least.

Actually, Fixnum#to_s and Bignum#to_s takes optional arguments
specifying base, so to handle hex you'd do arbitrary_number.to_s(16)
etc.

Vidar

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On Jan 28, 12:10 am, "Fer#" <fernando.mdelacu...@gmail.com> wrote:

# irb(main):003:0> (0...arbitrary_number.to_s.length).map{|digit|
# arbitrary_number.to_s.split('')[digit]}
# => ["1","2","3"]

forgive my ignorance, but why are you splitting them and rebuilding back the array. I mean why not,

# arbitrary_number.to_s.split ''
# => ["1","2","3"]

and it works for signed and float too

# arbitrary_number=-123.45
=> -123.45
# arbitrary_number.to_s.split ''
=> ["-", "1", "2", "3", ".", "4", "5"]

kind regards -botp

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From: Fer# [mailto:fernando.mdelacueva@gmail.com] :

that's what we did, yielding as was required, no?
Cheers
Robert

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On 1/29/07, Peña, Botp <botp@delmonte-phil.com> wrote:

From: Fer# [mailto:fernando.mdelacueva@gmail.com] :

# irb(main):003:0> (0...arbitrary_number.to_s.length).map{|digit|
# arbitrary_number.to_s.split('')[digit]}
# => ["1","2","3"]

forgive my ignorance, but why are you splitting them and rebuilding back
the array. I mean why not,

# arbitrary_number.to_s.split ''
# => ["1","2","3"]

and it works for signed and float too

# arbitrary_number=-123.45
=> -123.45
# arbitrary_number.to_s.split ''
=> ["-", "1", "2", "3", ".", "4", "5"]

kind regards -botp

--
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- Alan Kay