[ruby-talk:5876] Re: Integer(String) weirdness for a ruby newbie

On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 02:41:34 +0900  Mark Slagell wrote:
> Maybe you want "zzzzzzzzz".to_i, which returns 0.
> 
> to_i ignores leading/following characters that aren't in the 0-9 range
> and so never causes errors. Integer() is interested in a base radix,
> like "0x", and raises an exception if it sees a bad one. That is to say,
> it is probably right to complain about a zexadecimal number. :-)

I expected 'Integer("zzzzzzzzz")'  to raise an exception and
was surprised to get a 0 without exception.

I'm waiting for the compilation of matz's little patch which will surely
fix this...

Thanks for you quick answers, and fix!