From: Kenneth McDonald <kenneth.m.mcdonald@...>
Date: 2007-08-26T12:19:04+09:00
Subject: Strict conversion of strings to ints?

Is there an easy way to parse a string to an integer that will throw an 
error of some sort if the string is not actually a properly formatted 
integer? "to_i" of course is very non-strict, which is no good for what 
I want, and I'd prefer not to write my own when it seems likely that 
there would be some way to do this already...


Thanks,
Ken