From: JZ <usenet@...>
Date: 2005-07-15T19:35:52+09:00
Subject: Re: to_i() bug?

Dnia Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:11:43 +0900, ts napisa�(a):

>> why result is 1 instead of 0?
> 
> moulon% ruby -e 'p "1A01".to_i(2); p "10B01".to_i(2)'
> 1
> 2

I found, Ruby assumes that it will extract all characters up to first
impossible character. Is seems to be wrong assumption. to_i should return 0
or exception for all impossible conversions.

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JZ