From: an an <dtown22@...>
Date: 2008-02-09T04:17:53+09:00
Subject: Re: converting strings to booleans, symbols, etc

Day wrote:
> 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

thanks...thats the type of stuff i was looking for...im used to java, 
and I am actively tried to avoid coding Java style in ruby, but 
sometimes its hard to figure out the shortcuts that ruby provides
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