class Integer
Provides support for converting integers to Strings, and back again. The strings are structured so that lexicographic sorting order is preserved.
That is, if integer1 is less than integer2 for any two integers integer1 and integer2, then integer1.to_s_lex is lexicographically less than integer2.to_s_lex. (Similarly for “greater than” and “equals”.)
This class handles numbers between - 10 ** 10,000 and 10 ** 10,000 which should cover all practical numbers. If you need bigger numbers, increase Integer::LEN_STR_SIZE.
Constants
- LEN_STR_SIZE
LEN_SIZE of 4 should handle most numbers that can practically be held in memory.
- LEN_STR_TEMPLATE
- NEG_LEN_MASK
Public Instance Methods
Convert the number to a lexicographically sortable string. This string will use printable characters only but will not be human readable.
# File lib/ferret/number_tools.rb, line 35 def to_s_lex if (self >= 0) num_str = self.to_s len_str = LEN_STR_TEMPLATE % num_str.size return len_str + num_str else num = self * -1 num_str = num.to_s num_len = num_str.size len_str = LEN_STR_TEMPLATE % (NEG_LEN_MASK - num_len) num = (10 ** num_str.size) - num return "-#{len_str}%0#{num_len}d" % num end end
Convert the number to a lexicographically sortable string by padding with 0s. You should make sure that you set the width to a number large enough to accommodate all possible values. Also note that this method will not work with negative numbers. That is negative numbers will sort in the opposite direction as positive numbers. If you have very large numbers or a mix of positive and negative numbers you should use the #to_s_lex method
- width
-
number of characters in the string returned. Default is 10. So 123.to_s_pad(5) => 00123 and -123.to_s_pad(5) => -0123
- return
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padding string representation of the number.
# File lib/ferret/number_tools.rb, line 60 def to_s_pad(width = 10) "%#{width}d" % self end