From: kingruedi@... (=?utf-8?q?R=C3=BCdiger_Sonderfeld?=)
Date: 2005-09-04T00:16:26+09:00
Subject: Lexical Casts with Ruby

Hello,
I want to assign some values I recive in string form to attributes of a
user specified class. The problem is that I have to lexical cast the
strings into the required type. I can't use to_i or to_f because the attribute
type can only be determined at runtime.

Is there a way for lexical casts between types in Ruby? Something like
convert("10", Fixnum)
=> 10

Regards,
Rüdiger Sonderfeld <kingruedi@c-plusplus.de>