From: niall munnelly <aleph@...>
Date: 2002-06-08T08:58:21+09:00
Subject: Re: big dumb very newbie question

> Your $enterNumber variable refers to a string, but you can ask Ruby to 
> treat it as a number by applying the "to integer" method, to_i.
> 
> print $total * $enterNumber.to_i

o, i see.  thanks!

> By the way, which of the fm's are you rtfm'ing? Have you run across the 
> User's Guide yet?

i was l,ooking at http://www.rubycentral.com/faq/rubyfaq.html and some
google search results.

i just found the user's guide now:
http://www.ruby-lang.org/~slagell/ruby/rubyguide.html

thanks again.

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niall.
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