From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-01-13T02:43:02+09:00
Subject: Re: I/O gets and integers

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
 > If you want to accept both Integers and Floats, you can do
 > this: (temp=gets; Integer(temp) rescue Float(temp))

> so if you want you can append .to_f to that to make
> sure every result is a Float even when it was written as an Integer.


In this case, perhaps simply

   out = Float(str) rescue str

? (without Integer() and .to_f)

Tobi



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