From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-10-23T00:37:28+09:00
Subject: Re: convert/replace a value of nil with 0?

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Do you know how I can convert or replace any value that gets back a
> 'nil' to 0?
>
> For instance, the myArrayVal[0] may or may not contain a number and I
> want the code to default to 0 if a nil is returned. I have not found any
> documentation on this.

>> nil.to_i
=> 0
>> nil.to_f
=> 0.0