Thufir wrote:
> I'm getting keyboard input successfully, but I'm getting a string.  I
> need to convert it to a number.  But ruby is a dynamic language?
> What's happening please?
>
><snip -- too much to read through>
>

Look at this and see if it helps:

print "Enter an integer: "
str_int = gets

print "Enter a float: "
str_float = gets

the_int = str_int.to_i
the_float = str_float.to_f

puts the_int + the_float

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