From: Daniel Bretoi <lists@...>
Date: 2002-07-31T06:25:04+09:00
Subject: Re: how to do typecasting?

*smackself*
I must be dizze since my last selfsmack....
thanks guys

db

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 06:17:41AM +0900, Josh Huber wrote:
> Daniel Bretoi <lists@debonair.net> writes:
> 
> > is there a way to typecast values? 
> > if I have an array with numbers, and I want to perform sting type
> > methods on it.
> >
> > a = [1,2,4345,3]
> > a.each { |l| print l.length }
> > to produce
> > >>  1141
> >
> > besides defining a as ["1","2",etc], what options are there?
> 
> a.each { |v|
>        print v.to_s.length
> }
> 
> a = %w[1 2 4345 3]
> => ["1", "2", "4345", "3"]
> 
> hth,
> 
> -- 
> Josh Huber

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