From: ozawa@...
Date: 1998-12-17T14:16:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:00116] RE: STDIN integer assignment

In article <Pine.NEB.3.95.981216225135.16135C-100000@imaji.net>,
	Julian Fondren <julian@imaji.net> writes:

> in the following script, how would I be able to have the input along the
> lines of ``10 100 <ENTER>'' assign ans1 to 10 and ans2 to 100?

Use regular expressions.

-----^
input = STDIN.gets.chomp
/(\d+)\s+(\d+)/ =~ input
ans1 = $1.to_i
ans2 = $2.to_i
-----$

More obfuscating way:-p

-----^
ans1, ans2 = STDIN.gets.chomp.scan(/\d+/).collect { |x| x.to_i }
-----$

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