From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-01-13T02:21:09+09:00
Subject: Re: I/O gets and integers

Jack Dempsey wrote:

> 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


#!Nobu Nakada

class String
   def to_number
     Integer(self) rescue Float(self) rescue self
   end
end

Tobi

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