parsing engineering symbols

[Erik Max Francis]

Suresh Jeevanandam wrote:

> 	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.

There's some extensive code in the SI class in BOTEC which does this:

	http://www.alcyone.com/software/botec/

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