From: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 10:56:01 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Extend Numeric class with a clip() method to force a number to be in a given range
X-Git-Url: https://git.netwichtig.de/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2c65a50c9fbdbdaab20d76b73e9a68023739417f;p=user%2Fhenk%2Fcode%2Fruby%2Frbot.git

Extend Numeric class with a clip() method to force a number to be in a given range
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diff --git a/lib/rbot/core/utils/extends.rb b/lib/rbot/core/utils/extends.rb
index 4b7e57f3..b812a676 100644
--- a/lib/rbot/core/utils/extends.rb
+++ b/lib/rbot/core/utils/extends.rb
@@ -27,6 +27,24 @@ class ::Array
   end
 end
 
+# Extensions for the Numeric classes
+#
+class ::Numeric
+
+  # This method forces a real number to be not more than a given positive
+  # number or not less than a given positive number, or between two any given
+  # numbers
+  #
+  def clip(left,right=0)
+    raise ArgumentError unless left.kind_of?(Numeric) and right.kind_of?(Numeric)
+    l = [left,right].min
+    u = [left,right].max
+    return l if self < l
+    return u if self > u
+    return self
+  end
+end
+
 # Extensions to the String class
 #
 # TODO make ircify_html() accept an Hash of options, and make riphtml() just