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so i'm writing a program for class that tells the user if the person is
20 or under then they get a green and if the person is 21 or over then
tehy get red here's the code and error




age = ageText.to_s

if age <= 20
status = "GREEN"
else
status = "RED"
end






C:/ruby/martinilounge.rb:69:in `<=': comparison of String with 18 failed
from C:/ruby/martinilounge.rb:69
from C:/ruby/martinilounge.rb:98:in `call'
from C:/ruby/martinilounge.rb:98:in `main'
from C:/ruby/martinilounge.rb:98

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On 10-10-19 08:29 PM, Jake Alucard wrote:
> so i'm writing a program for class that tells the user if the person is
> 20 or under then they get a green and if the person is 21 or over then
> tehy get red here's the code and error
>
>
>
>
> age = ageText.to_s
>
> if age<= 20
> status = "GREEN"
> else
> status = "RED"
> end
>
>
>
>
>
>
> C:/ruby/martinilounge.rb:69:in `<=': comparison of String with 18 failed
> from C:/ruby/martinilounge.rb:69
> from C:/ruby/martinilounge.rb:98:in `call'
> from C:/ruby/martinilounge.rb:98:in `main'
> from C:/ruby/martinilounge.rb:98
>

20 is not a string =), possible you want to do the following

age = ageText.to_i

you can also do

age = Integer(ageText)

the 2nd form will throw an ArgumentError exception if ageText is not a
number, while the 1st form will simply return some integer value, you
can play around with the them in irb:


irb(main):001:0> "$55".to_i
=> 0

irb(main):002:0> "33".to_i
=> 33

irb(main):003:0> "33rr12".to_i
=> 33

irb(main):004:0> nil.to_i
=> 0

irb(main):005:0> "rrr".to_i
=> 0

irb(main):006:0> Integer("12")
=> 12

irb(main):007:0> Integer("$12")
ArgumentError: invalid value for Integer(): "$12"
from (irb):7:in `Integer'
from (irb):7
from /usr/local/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'



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On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Brian Candler <> wrote:
> Rajinder Yadav wrote in post #955622:
>> you can also do
>>
>> age = Integer(ageText)
>>
>> the 2nd form will throw an ArgumentError exception if ageText is not a
>> number
>
> Beware that it also has some other behaviour you might not expect.
>
>>> Integer("20")
> => 20
>>> Integer("00020")
> => 16
>>> Integer("0x00020")
> => 32
>
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>
>

nice thanks for pointing that out =)

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