From: Tjabo Kloppenburg Date: 2001-04-19T18:40:09+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:13851] Re: number to string to number > I need to make it a String first, and then use the .to_i function -> > "#{count}".to_i > this can't be right, can it? try "puts count.type" to see the type of count. tk.