From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2011-05-07T00:19:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Lets play a guessing game. (how to code this better?)

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On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 04:27:53PM +0900, Jes=FAs Gabriel y Gal=E1n wrote:
>=20
> If you need to check if the full string is a valid number, you can use
> Kernel#Integer, which will raise an exception:

Wow.  Somehow I never found that.  All this time, I've been doing this:

    if foo.to_i.to_s =3D=3D foo

=2E . . or, if appropriate:

    if foo.to_i.to_s =3D=3D foo.chomp

Thanks for mentioning the Integer() approach.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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