From: "studlee2@..." <studlee2@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T03:50:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Real newbie question about methods

One correction: make age a string (.to_s) if you want to use the regexp
>_<

I think Une's code is cleaner overall.

_Steve

studlee2@gmail.com wrote:
> 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.to_s)
>
>   <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