From: Sam Gentle <sgentle@...>
Date: 2005-11-24T22:31:20+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie scope issue

On 11/25/05, jemptymethod@gmail.com <jemptymethod@gmail.com> wrote:
> How do I fix the following so that entering 'q' indeed breaks out of
> the loop?  I've read the following but think I will need to see an
> example to truly understand.

Gets also reads in the end-of-line separator. You could use:

while arabic.chomp != 'q' do

Sam