Re: Help! Strings -> Numbers

[email protected] (Luke Palmer) Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:59:16 -0700 (MST)

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> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:49:08 -0800
> From: Michael Lazzaro <[email protected]>
> 
> Or, using hypothetical vars:
> 
>     $s ~~ s/ $num := <number> /$num.as(MoneyFormat)/;
> 
> (This is a bit off-topic, but it's a tiny bit sad that you can name 
> subrules, but you can't refer to them by name in the interpolation 
> unless you use hypothetical vars.  Eh, no biggie: it would introduce 
> too many problems to allow it.)

IIRC, that's not true.  I believe this is alive and DWIMmy:

    $s ~~ s/ <number> /$number.as(MoneyFormat)/;

I know this is:

    s/ <number> <( $number < 200 )> /

Luke