On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Max Williams
<toastkid.williams / gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a requirement where i need to display (ie convert to a string)
> all digits to 3 significant figures. not the same as 3 decimal places)
>
> eg
>
> 3 => "23"
> 6759 => "26,800"
> 0.546 => "10.5"
> 332332 => "3,330,000"
> .766 => "0.766"
> .00000766 => "0.00000766"
>
> Can anyone show me a neat way to do this?  ¨Â§ä èáöå ôèïõçèôèáô ôèåòå§> be a method for it already but i can't find one.
>
> thanks!
> max
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>
At frirst sight and testing with the data you have given, the
following pretty much seems to do the trick:

  x.to_s.sub( /(\.0*\d{0,3}).*/, '\1' )

Did I overlook any edge cases?

HTH
R.