From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2007-07-18T05:31:39+09:00
Subject: Re: type conversion

Shandy Nantz wrote:
> So there is an to_s for strings and a to_i for integers. However, if I
> have an array of integers and I want to grab one, I get back and ASCII
> character. 

Are you sure you have an array of integers?

Show some code.

> For example, when I grab a 1 from the array it returns a 49 -
> but I wanted the one! How do I convert it back to its integer
> want-to-be? Thanks,
> 


This works for me:

# Create int array, 11 to 19
# the * expands the range into an array
a = *11..19

# print it to see what we have
p a

# See what we have at the first location
p a[0]  # I get  11



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James Britt

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