From: Robert Schaaf <ruby-bucket@...>
Date: 2009-04-30T21:34:08+09:00
Subject: Re: (mandriva,eclipse) extract digits from fixnums

You could try

a.to_s.split(//).collect {|s| s.to_i}

and extract nb_nb elements.

Bob Schaaf


On Apr 30, 2009, at 7:54 AM, lolveley wrote:

> hi,
>
> I want to do a basic thing but without succes:
> if a=1232, let nb_nb=4 (the number of digits)
> for i from 1 to nb_nb, I want the following results:
> i=1 => res=1 (first digit of a) and NOT the number 01 (with a zero  
> in front of the 1)
> i=2 => res=2 (same thing)
> i=3 => res=3
> i=4 => res=2
>
> I tried a few things, like convert the number in array (it seems to  
> keep the "0" in the result)...
>
> do you have a solution?
>
> olivier.
>
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