From: Bira <u.alberton@...>
Date: 2006-05-13T07:56:55+09:00
Subject: Re: conversion issues

On 5/12/06, corey konrad <0011@hush.com> wrote:
> i just have a question i am not trying to be a smart ass either but
>
> one thing i find strange is that the puts means put string, its a string
> method, now when i use the length method to get the amount of characters
> in a word it works fine....yet to put the length i get an error: cant
> convert from fixnum to string problem....i have to convert the integer
> returned to string even though i am using a string method? Shoulndt
> string conversion be implied in the puts method since thats what people
> are going to use it for or would that cause problems somehow?

I tried the following in IRB:

string = "fnord"
puts string.length

It printed out "5" just fine. Is that the problem you were referring to?

(I'm using Ruby 1.8.4 on Linux).

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