From: Mike Stok <mike@...>
Date: 2002-02-05T04:27:48+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie: Array element conversion

On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Mark Probert wrote:

>
> Hello.
>
> I have an array of numbers as strings that I want to
> convert to individual numbers.
>
> Naively, I tried
>
> ��������> a = ["100", "487", "23"]
> ��������> x, y, z = a.each { |s| s.to_i }
>
> but I only get the strings back. I know that a[0].to_i
> works but I am not sure how to get it to work over
> each element of the array, correctly.

  x, y, z = a.collect{ |s| s.to_i }

maybe?

Hope this helps,

Mike

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