From: Akchizar <akchizar@...>
Date: 2006-07-05T08:42:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Hate to ask - weird puts/gets error

Hate to say it, but it is a typo:

 >print  = 'Enter hour: '

Note that = sign that isn't supposed to be there. If it helps, I  
ended up copying it by hand, finding my version worked, and  
vimdiff'ing the two files before I saw it.

On 5/07/2006, at 11:31 AM, Dark Ambient wrote:

> Sorry, I didn't want to be back here today.
> Having a problem with some interaction , basically things just freeze
> up. This is in Scite.  I tried the same code in irb , everything is
> fine.
>
> print 'Enter birth year: 0000 '
> byear = gets.chomp
> print  'Enter month: 1-12 '
> bmonth = gets.chomp
> print  'Enter date: '
> bday = gets.chomp <------right after I hit enter on this
> print  = 'Enter hour: ' <-------hangs, never asking for hour, if I hit
> enter a few times
> bhour = gets.chomp
> print  'Enter minute: '<------it goes immediately to this
> bminute = gets.chomp
> print  'Enter seconds '
> bsecond = gets.chomp
>
> bddate = Time.mktime(byear,bmonth,bday,bhour,bminute,bsecond)
>
> Weird ?
> Any idea ? I really hope this isn't a typo that a dozen reads  
> hasn't revealed.
>
> TIA
> Stuart
>