From: ChrisH <chris.hulan@...>
Date: 2006-03-29T17:13:43+09:00
Subject: Re: How to 'space' certain things apart?

JB wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I'm trying to learn a programming language and this one came up in my
> searches as a fairly easy one. I've never taken any courses and have
> absolutely zero knowledge of programming or scripting. The main reason I want
> to learn a language is just to simply make my own scripts for a MUD I play
> online, heh.
>
>   Anyway, I found a place to at least get me started and I had to do this
> program below. The problem I'm having is that at the end, it shows the
> persons name as, example: JimmySBrown instead of Jimmy S Brown. How do I get
> it to add the two spaces I need?
>
> puts  'Please tell me your first name.'
> first_name = gets.chomp
> puts 'Please tell me your middle initial.'
> middle_initial = gets.chomp
> puts 'Please tell me your last name now.'
> last_name = gets.chomp
> var1 = first_name
> var2 = middle_initial
> var3 = last_name
> name = var1.to_s + var2.to_s + var3.to_s
> puts 'Pleased to meet you, ' + name + '!'

You picked a good starter language to learn!

No need to create those extra vars:

name = "#{first_name} #{middle_initial} #{last_name}"

Note the spaces put in between the values.

Cheers