From: Day <iamday@...>
Date: 2008-02-09T04:07:50+09:00
Subject: Re: converting strings to booleans, symbols, etc

On Feb 8, 2008 12:51 PM, an an <dtown22@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am parsing an xml document, and I wanted to know if there is a quick
> built in way to convert a string to a symbol or a boolean.

The symbol is easy, anyway:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M000825

Once you're there, making a compare for true/false isn't so much code.
But maybe someone else has a cleaner solution to that.


Ben