Cheddar - Transform that hard-earned cheese into real integers or Fixnums.

Cheddar is a little library for converting human input strings into numbers.

Installation

gem install cheddar

or add the following line to your Gemfile:

gem 'cheddar'

and run bundle install from your shell.

Examples

The basics.

require 'cheddar'

'15 hundred'.human_to_number
# => 1500

'$200 million'.human_to_number
# => 200000000

'15.72 vigintillion'.human_to_number
# => 1.5720000000000002e+64

Slightly more advanced.

'25 bucks'.human_to_number
# => 25

'20 large'.human_to_number
# => 2000

'33 straight up large bills'.human_to_number
# => 3300