From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2005-11-17T14:28:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Improving code...

On 11/17/05, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:

> That is *exactly* what I had before I decided to use scanf.  scanf has
> the advantage of automatically converting everything to the correct
> type.  But I'm not sure what's best in this case.

You could easily call to_f before you assign it to the hash.

> Later on, I might need to get more of the process information, so I
> thought getting all the values, and then just putting the ones I need
> into the hash would be better.

you still are getting all the values.  You could make an array of keys
or a temporary hash if you want to make it more clear, though...