From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-09-21T13:02:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby doesn't convert from String to int

On 9/20/06, Yu Co <djhackebeil@yahoo.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have the following peace of code:
> arr = [5, 5, 2002]
> date = Date.new(arr[2].to_i, arr[1].to_i, arr[0].to_i)
>
> I need to convert the String elements in the array into int. I want to
> do that with to_i, but this method returns me a Fixnum, thus I couldn't
> fill my date Object...
> Any suggestions?

Yes. Try it again.

1. Your array contains Fixnum values already.
2. You're probably getting a different error.
3. Fixnum values are integer values.

If you have a problem, your real code and/or a backtrace would be useful.

-austin
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