From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T08:40:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with beginner code


markbaltes@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello everyone. I'm trying to learn to program, and after some
> searching I've decided to learn while using Ruby. I'm using the Chris
> Pine guide for now, but I've gotten stuck on a simple program I'm
> messing with. Here is what I have:
>
> daysindecade = 365 * 10
> daysinyear = 365
> hoursinyear = 8760
> hoursindecade = hoursinyear * 10
> minutesinday = 60 * 24
> secondsinday = minutesinday * 60
> secondsinyear = secondsinday * 365
> secondsindecade = secondsinyear * 10
>
>
> puts 'How old are you?'
> myage = gets.chomp
>
> daysalive = myage * daysinyear
>
> puts 'You have been alive ' + daysalive + ' days.'
>
> I just would like the program to multiply the age I enter in by 365 to
> give me how many days that person has been alive.
>
> Now I'm guessing that myage is a string, so I thought I'd have to turn
> it into an integer for this to work. So I tried myage.to_i but I've
> still had no luck. Any tips on how to make this work?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Mark

daysalive = myage.to_i * daysinyear

puts 'You have been alive ' + daysalive.to_s + ' days.'
puts "You have been alive #{ daysalive } days."