On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins / yahoo.com> wrote:
> Do you know how I can convert or replace any value that gets back a
> 'nil' to 0?
>
> For instance, the myArrayVal[0] may or may not contain a number and I
> want the code to default to 0 if a nil is returned. I have not found any
> documentation on this.

irb(main):001:0> array = []
=> []
irb(main):002:0> value = array[0] || 0
=> 0
irb(main):003:0> value
=> 0

Hope this helps,

Jesus.