From: Drew Olson <olsonas@...>
Date: 2006-09-24T14:44:39+09:00
Subject: Help w/ Codegolf Total Triangles- reading input

Hello all -

I'm getting quite frustrated with a very "easy" part of this 
problem...reading the input! Basically, the input is given as so:

1
1 2
1 3 2
1 4 2 1

What I intend to do is read the input line by line, split the lines by 
spaces and store each substring as the associated integer. Essentially I 
want to end up with a two dimensional array holding the integers shown 
above. I'm using the following line of code:

a = readlines.each{|i|i.split(" ").each{|j|j=j.to_i}}

However, when I do a puts I see the following:

puts a[1][1] => 32

GAH! Why is it printing the ascii character value? Do I have a logic 
flaw in the way I'm reading the input? Is there a better way to read the 
input? Should I just tear my hair out?

Thanks,
Drew

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