From: Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...>
Date: 2011-03-20T08:24:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Using value from variable in .times method?

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Jen <jen.bottom@gmail.com> wrote:

> I confess I don't know a lot of the technical stuff about class Fixnum, as
> I've not really needed to until now.

Time to learn :-)

> Currently I am getting the value of 'pop' from the user with the following
> code:
>
>  puts "please enter a population size"
> pop = gets.chomp

$ irb
>> foo = "1"
=> "1"
>> foo.class.name
=> "String"
>> bar = 1
=> 1
>> bar.class.name
=> "Fixnum"
>> bar.times { puts "cool" }
cool
=> 1
>> foo.times { puts "cool" }
NoMethodError: undefined method `times' for "1":String
	from (irb):6
>>

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