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Ruby Ruby Loops Ruby Loops Loop Conditionals

Posted by nusunteudevina
nusunteudevina
8,806 Points

gets.chomp.to_i

Isn't it a bit redundant to use '.chomp' before '.to_i' ?

3 Answers

Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,602 Points
Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,602 Points

Hey Marius,

you observed that correctly! Actually there is no need to use the chomp method in this case as the to_i method ignores extraneous characters/whitespace in the end.

nusunteudevina
nusunteudevina
8,806 Points
nusunteudevina
nusunteudevina
8,806 Points

Thank you Tobias.

Todd MacIntyre
Todd MacIntyre
12,248 Points
Todd MacIntyre
Todd MacIntyre
12,248 Points

Correct! Ruby-docs state that extraneous characters past the end of a valid number are ignored.