From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-02-18T12:15:44+09:00
Subject: Re: boolean to int conversion

Cere Davis wrote:

>
> I'm a bit of a Ruby newbie so be kind pls.
>
> Could someone tell me if there's an easy way to make a value of True 
> go to 1 and False goto 0?
>
> a sort of to_i method?
>
> Thanks,
> Cere
>

Besides adding them yourself, I don't think so.  However, you can use 
the ternary operator to good effect here:

  a = true
  puts( a ? 1 : 0 )
  a = false
  puts( a ? 1 : 0 )

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Jamis Buck
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