From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-05-11T09:22:59+09:00
Subject: Re: simple newbie question


On May 10, 2006, at 8:13 PM, Bob Wickham wrote:

> Hi, I'm just starting Ruby and theres something I'm sure is very  
> simple
> but I just cant get it work. Its an exercise in Chris Pine's tutorial.
> The question is:
> Write a program which asks for a person's favorite number. Have your
> program add one to the number, then suggest the result as a bigger and
> better favorite number.
>
> My code:
> puts 'What is your favourite number?'
> number = gets.chomp
> puts 'I think ' +  (number.to_s + 1.to_s) + ' is a better number'
>
> is the only way I can get anything to work but this is adding  
> strings so
> 2 + 1 becomes 21 which is not the objective.
>
> Of course, I need the answer to be 3.
>
> puts 'What is your favourite number?'
> number = gets.chomp
> puts 'I think ' +  (number.to_i + 1.to_i) + ' is a better number'
>
> results in this error "cannot convert Fixnum into String (TypeError)"
>
> I've tried lots of other combinations but its not happening for me.
> I know its simple but, hey, I have to start somewhere.
>
> Bob
>
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