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From: Gary Wright on 17 Mar 2010 01:25

On Mar 17, 2010, at 1:15 AM, Sam Yang wrote:

> Gary Wright wrote:
>> On Mar 16, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Phillip Curry wrote:
>>
>>> I want to take an array of strings and convert each member to an integer.
>>> array.to_i obviously doesn't work.
>>
>> => a = %w{1 2 3 4}
>> => ["1", "2", "3", "4"]
>>>> a.map! { |x| x.to_i }
>> => [1, 2, 3, 4]
>
> simply
> ["1","2"].collect(&:to_i)

simply?

Your alternative creates a new array and it seemed like the OP
wanted to replace the elements in the existing array. And I don't
think Symbol#to_proc is 'simple' for someone who isn't familiar yet
with map/map! (or collect/collect!).

Gary Wright

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