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instance method

IO#to_i

to_i

Alias of #fileno

Returns the integer file descriptor for the stream:

Example
$stdin.fileno             # => 0
$stdout.fileno            # => 1
$stderr.fileno            # => 2
File.open('t.txt').fileno # => 10
f.close
See also #fileno #timeout= #to_io #timeout also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0