[Rails] Re: is there any Time function to gat a duration from string ?

You could convert the string to a time object and pick out the
specific parts you want. This might come in handy if you want to store
the time in the database at some point.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Time.html

On Jul 10, 11:47 am, Erwin <yves_duf...@mac.com> wrote:
> I tried :
> output = "00:00:03.10"
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> output.split(':').inject(0){|a, m| a = a * 60 + m.to_f}
>  => 3.1
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> is there any better way ?
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> On Jul 10, 5:37 pm, Erwin <yves_duf...@mac.com> wrote:
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> > I get a string back from ffmpeg :  "00:00:03.10"    ( "hh:mm:ss" )
> > which class should I use to get it converted into  3.10 sec ( float)
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> > thanks for your feedback

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