--00163692082b009c51047d81ba80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Is there a nice way to convert a string to an integer if it is in fact an integer, and to return nil or even an error if it's not? The method to_i returns 0 if the string is not an integer, which isn't hugely helpful, as I want to be able to distinguish between the integer 0 and non-integer strings. thanks --00163692082b009c51047d81ba80--