From: Dark Ambient <sambient@...>
Date: 2006-06-29T02:15:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginners question: branching and ends

Helps a great deal! TY. I do use indentation and the odd thing is when
I cut/paste into the email , the indentation remains intact.  I'm not
sure what gmail is doing (if anything) once it gets sent.

Stuart

On 6/28/06, Louis J Scoras <louis.j.scoras@gmail.com> wrote:
> Stuart;
>
> I've taken the liberty of reformating your code here.  It is really
> important you you indent things correctly so that you can see the
> structure of the code clearly.  You'll see that I've added lines to in
> the columns showing each construct and it's matching end tag:
>
> somearray.each do |x|
> |  anotherarray.each do |y|
> |  |  if x == y
> |  |  |  # ......do something.......
> |  |  else
> |  |  |  # .....do something..........
> |  |  end
> |  end
> end
>
> See?  As you suspected, the first end is paired up with the if/else
> construct.  As indented above; however, you can plainly see how the
> end keywords match up with their controlling constructs.  It turns out
> that you had the meaning of the last two ends switched in your
> comments.
>
> Everything needs to be properly nested.  That is, you need to end the
> first do block before you can end the enclosed one.
>
> I hope that helps a little.
>
>
> --
> Lou.
>
>