From: Mark Bush <mark@...>
Date: 2008-02-29T01:05:15+09:00
Subject: Re: to long

Shandy Nantz wrote:
> I am trying to convert some vb script code to its Ruby counterpart and
> there is a function in the script which converts an expression to a long
> data type and my question is, is there a way to do the same thing in
> Ruby. I had been using to_i but I'm not sure if that is correct. Thanks,

Depends what your "expression" is.  In Ruby, there's no need to worry 
about how big an integer is.  Different subclasses of Integer are used 
to handle integers of different magnitudes, but that is transparent, so:

a = "123".to_i
=> 123
a.class
=> Fixnum

a = "248578913250896781364890374857878134".to_i
=> 248578913250896781364890374857878134
a.class
=> Bignum

Remember that the variable is just a name pointing to an object and can 
point to any object of any class.

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