From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-04-14T15:40:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange Integer() behavior

Patrick Joyce wrote:
> I am learning Ruby and have encountered an error on a call to 
> 'Integer("039")' in 
> gems/ruby-web-1.1.1/lib/web/htmlparser/sgml-parser.rb while working on a 
> little screen scraper project.

The leading zero leads Ruby to think it's octal, but 9
isn't valid in an octal number.

I think "039".to_i would work (as it doesn't assume octal).


Hal