From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-08-26T12:25:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Strict conversion of strings to ints?

On Aug 25, 2007, at 10:19 PM, Kenneth McDonald wrote:

> 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...

 >> Integer("junk")
ArgumentError: invalid value for Integer: "junk"
         from (irb):1:in `Integer'
         from (irb):1

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II