From: Joshua Drake <jd.nospam@...>
Date: 2001-08-24T08:30:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20221] Example 1: Was Ruby Article

Hello,

First let me thank everyone who is responding. This is excellent. I have 
reviewed a great deal of the feedback and appreciate it. After reviewing the
example code snippets I came up with the following. I think it represents a 
better overall script. 

Your thoughts are appreciated:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
 File.open('phonespec.txt', 'a') do |aBook|
 
puts <<EOT
 
Welcome to MyAddressbook. Please follow the prompts.
If you wish to end data entry, you may do so at any time.
Just type the word END into a prompt.
 
EOT
 
addrData = Array.new
addrFields = ["First Name", "Last Name", "Phone Number"]
 
x = 0
loop do
  print "\n\t#{addrFields[x]}: "
  getLine = gets
  break if getLine == "END\n"
  addrData[x] = getLine.chop!
  x += 1
  if x == addrFields.length
    aBook.puts addrData.join("\t")
    addrData.clear
    x = 0
  end
end
puts "\n\nTo start the program again please type addr.rb\n\tGoodBye!\n"
end