Module: Treat::Helpers::String::Escapable

Defined in:
lib/treat/helpers/string.rb

Overview

Utility to escape floating point numbers from strings (useful for a variety of applications, including chunking, segmenting and tokenizing, to exclude periods that are not sentence terminators).

Constant Summary collapse

EscapeChar =

Escape char to use.

'^^^'
Regex =

Regex for escape.

/([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#escape_floats! ⇒ Object

Escape float periods with EscapeChar.



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# File 'lib/treat/helpers/string.rb', line 18

def escape_floats!
  to_s.gsub!(Regex) { $1 + EscapeChar + $2 }
end