From: Hank Gong <hankgong@...>
Date: 2006-06-22T18:53:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Questions

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p "Please input your choice:"
menuinput=gets

if menuinput.chomp! =="1"
    p "1"
else
    p "other"
end


2006/6/22, Paul Teale <pteale@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi,
> I am new to Ruby and have a newbie Ruby question that i couldn't find
> the answer to in the FAQ.
> If this is the wrong forum to post newbie questions please accept my
> apologies and direct me to a more suitable forum where i can ask newbie
> Ruby questions. Thanks.
>
> First i display a console based menu with puts statements and then wait
> for input with the gets method like this..
>
> menuChoiceString = gets
>
> Then i have the following code to act based on what menu option was
> chosen.
>
> if menuChoiceString == "1" then
> puts "You pressed 1"
> else
> puts "You pressed 2"
> end
>
> When i use this and enter 1 it goes to the second option.
> It looks fairly simple syntax so i'm not sure why the if statement is
> failing.
> Can anyone help me understand why this would fail?
>
> thanks
>
> Paul
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>


-- 
Huazhi Gong (Hank)

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