From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2005-08-13T03:06:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Another newbie question


David A. Black wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Brian Schr�der wrote:
>
> > a minor correction:
> >
> > On 12/08/05, Julian Leviston wrote:
> >> You'd probably want
> >
> > - puts "Please enter dollar amount":
> > + puts "Please enter dollar amount:"
> > gets line
>
> I'm almost certain he actually wants:
>
>    line = gets


raise 'almost certain'  # :-)


------------------------------------------------------------ Kernel#gets
     gets(separator=$/)    => string or nil
------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Returns (and assigns to $_) the next line from the list of files
     in ARGV (or $*), or from standard input if no files are present
     on the command line.
     [...]


STDIN.gets is safer for this case, I think.


daz