From: Jack Dempsey <dempsejn@...>
Date: 2002-01-13T02:09:36+09:00
Subject: RE: I/O gets and integers

Unless you changed the behavior of gets itself, I believe it'll always
return a string. You could then write a small function to check the type and
use .to_i yourself though

Jack

-----Original Message-----
From: linas [mailto:geek@spunge.org]
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 11:26 AM
To: ruby-talk ML; undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: I/O gets and integers


Whenever i use gets to retireve user input, it always retrieves it as a
string. Is there anyway that it can be retireved as an integer (or real
number)?

-linas