From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2013-02-07T15:43:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Issues from an extreme beginner

> And I also had another one (I must have accidently overwritten it) that
> converted the strings to integers, by the ".length" method, and back to
> strings and added them. Which yielded no error, but instead simply added
> the string numbers together (5+6+4=564 instead of 5+6+4=15)
>
> I was just wondering if somebody could take a look at this code and
> point me in the right direction.
>

A hint.

p "Bruce".length.class  #> Fixnum
p (1+2+3).to_s.class  #> String



Harry