parsing engineering symbols

[gene tani]

Suresh Jeevanandam wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I want to convert a string to float value. The string contains
> engineering symbols.
> 	For example,
>
> 	s = '12k'
>
> 	I want some function which would return 12000
> 		function(s)
> 		=> 12000.0
> 	I searched the web, but could not find any function.
>
> regards,
> Suresh

port this
http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Numeric/Bytes.html