From: Elliot Temple <curi@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T04:03:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Real newbie question about methods


On Jul 10, 2006, at 12:00 PM, Une b�vue wrote:

> studlee2@gmail.com <studlee2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> valid = /\d{2}/  #checks for exactly 2 digits
>
> this woundn't help because of gets.chomp returns always strings and
> gets.chomp.to_i returns Fixnum with 0 in case of any alpha betic  
> char in
> gets...

so check the regex before the to_i

need anchors though or "hi24" will pass

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