how to convert string into int

Tom_Mornini1 (Tom Mornini) January 3, 2007, 12:44pm 1

~/Desktop: irb irb(main):005:0> "1 2 3 4 5".scan(/\d+/).inject(0) { |sum,item| sum+item.to_i } => 15

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