Negative nums

[Tim Wolak]

Morning all,

I sent an email on this yesterday and needed to give you guys some example
code. Below is some code I have for grabbing the numbers I need from lines
in a text file that we receive via FTP. My big concern is the negative
numbers for accounts which are indicated by a position in the file where 0
is a postive number and =AD is a negative number. What is the best way to g=
et
my account balance and make it a negative number? I=B9m not sure I=B9m doi=
ng it
the correct way in this script.

class Info
attr_reader :acct, :money
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def initialize(filename)
@acct =3D File.new(filename, "r")
end
f =3D Info.new("Balances20080415.txt")
act =3D f.acct
act.each do |list|
#covert me to a string
futbal =3D list.to_s
#Pull accounts
office =3D futbal[22..24]
if office =3D=3D "RPT"
next
else=20=20
acctnum =3D futbal[24..28]
end
#Pull Liquidating values
lv =3D futbal[217..231]
#Pull LV Indicator
lvind =3D futbal[215..215]
#if Negitave vlaues
if lvind =3D=3D "-"
lvnegfloat =3D lv.to_f/1000
print acctnum," ",lvind, lvnegfloat, "\n"
#else Positive Values
else
lvposflt =3D lv.to_f/1000
print acctnum, " ", lvposflt, "\n"
end
end
end


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[Jano Svitok]

Morning all,

I sent an email on this yesterday and needed to give you guys some examp= le
code. Below is some code I have for grabbing the numbers I need from li= nes
in a text file that we receive via FTP. My big concern is the negative
numbers for accounts which are indicated by a position in the file where= 0
is a postive number and =AD is a negative number. What is the best way t= o get
my account balance and make it a negative number? I=B9m not sure I=B9m = doing it
the correct way in this script.

what about:

class Info
attr_reader :acct, :money

def initialize(filename)
@acct =3D File.new(filename, "r")
end
f =3D Info.new("Balances20080415.txt")
act =3D f.acct
act.each do |list|
#covert me to a string
futbal =3D list.to_s
#Pull accounts
office =3D futbal[22..24]
if office =3D=3D "RPT"
next
else
acctnum =3D futbal[24..28]
end
#Pull Liquidating values
lv =3D futbal[217..231]
#Pull LV Indicator

is_negative =3D futbal[215..215] =3D=3D '-'
value =3D lv.to_f/1000
value =3D -value if is_negative
puts acctnum," ",value

end

or (though not very readable)

value =3D futbal[217..231].to_f / ((futbal[215..215] =3D=3D '-') ? -1000 : =
1000)

or a bit better:

value =3D futbal[217..231].to_f / 1000 * ((futbal[215..215] =3D=3D '-') ? -=
1 : 1)