From: moontoeki@... (Sung Moon)
Date: 2002-02-08T03:04:00+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie: Array element conversion

>Subject: newbie: Array element conversion
>From: Mark Probert probertm@nortelnetworks.com 

>I have an array of numbers as strings that I want to 
>convert to individual numbers.
>
>Naively, I tried
>
><x-tab>        </x-tab>> a =[&quot;100&quot;, &quot;487&quot;,
>&quot;23&quot;]
><x-tab>        </x-tab>> 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.

a =["100", "487", "23"]
z = []
a.each { |s|
    s1 = s.to_i
  z << s1
}
p z   #==> {100, 487, 23]