From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-05-09T04:05:01+09:00
Subject: Re: to check for numericality


On May 8, 2008, at 2:17 AM, Farrel Lifson wrote:
> @val = someValue if ( Integer( someValue) rescue Float( someValue )
> rescue false)

that is a bug:

cfp:~ > ruby -e' p Integer( bug = nil ) '
0


simply use 'Float(value) rescue false'



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