From: "studlee2@..." <studlee2@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T03:40:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Real newbie question about methods

You can add a regular expression to see if you age is valid like this:

/-----------------------------------------------------------------/
valid = /\d{2}/  #checks for exactly 2 digits
if valid.match(age)

  <Your Code Here>

else
  puts "Invalid entry"
end

/-----------------------------------------------------------------/
Hope this helps.

_Steve


simonh wrote:
> Thanks Une b�vue
>
> It seems I didn't need the parameter to the method. Also forgot to add
> the second elsif (to check if too old). If I run the program and type
> 'a' instead of a two digit number the first if statement gets printed -
> 'sorry too young'
>
> what i want is for the else statement to be run if user input is not
> entered as two digits. How would I do this? Somehow got to check if
> gets recieves an integer of two digits.
> 
> thanks again