From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2002-01-13T05:34:51+09:00
Subject: Re: I/O gets and integers


On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Tobias Reif wrote:
> 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

oh. you are right. didn't think about this one.

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