From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-01-06T10:13:08+09:00
Subject: Re: user defined instance variables

Hi --

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, John Maclean wrote:

> Hey Chaps,
> So far so good. I've a menu as shown below. So far by following the
> "pick axe" I've been able to "hard code" all of my instance
> variables. I'd like a user to enter his/her details and let his
> entry specify that variable? Make sense?

Can't you just get keyboard input and initialize the object with that?

   print "First name: "
   fname = gets.chomp

etc.

>      print "Entering details capturing session\n"

Don't forget about puts :-)


David

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