From: John Maclean <info@...>
Date: 2008-02-12T10:15:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby one liner killed my script

Where can I find out more about that method within ri?
ri Object?

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:50:25 +0900
7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:

> John Maclean wrote:
> > I'm wondering
> > how I can convert a user's input into a fixnum?
> >
> >   def put_bin_string
> > # this is the line in which I originally tried to convert 
> > # the user's binary digit to denary:
> >
> >puts "your bin #{@ustring.to_i} =
> > 0b#{@ustring.to_i}" end
> > end
> > 
> 
> Does this help:
> 
> input = "10000001"
> puts input.to_i(base=2)
> 
> --output:--
> 129


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John Maclean
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