[portland] Reformatting Data Files

[Ethan Furman]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Ethan Furman wrote:
> 
>> How about a function that either floats your string, or returns the 
>> string if it's not a number?
> 
>   Thank you. I'm moving among emacs, SQL, R, and python and think my brain
> short-circuited along the way. Didn't think of this.

Heh -- no worries.  Same situation happened to me a couple months ago. 
Got so caught up in the complexities that I missed the simple solution.

>>
>> Hope this helps!
> 
>   Certainly does.
> 
> Much appreciated,


Awesome.  Good luck!

~Ethan~