From: JervisTown@... (dwyer@...2.ie)
Date: 2007-04-01T06:45:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Noob question - Sending args to a method?

thanks all, i mistakenly believed that Integer() cast the variable to an integer allowing it to be 
passed. Is there another version of the gets method, like iput and raw_input in Python?




>The following code leads to an error -

>temp.rb:5:in `*': String can't be coerced into Fixnum (TypeError)

>can someone explain the error to me so I can determine how to resolve it, Thanks a million!

>def c_f(temp)
	convert=((9/5)*temp)+32
	print "the coverted fig is ", convert
>end
>temp=gets.chomp
>Integer(temp)
>c_f(temp)


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