From: John Fink <john.fink@...>
Date: 2006-08-10T01:50:59+09:00
Subject: Re: how to see if a variable matches an array element?

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Yeehaw, that did it.  Thanks David.

jf

On 8/9/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
>
> Hi --
>
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, John Fink wrote:
>
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > I'm knocking together a Rock, Paper, Scissors Ruby script to teach
> myself
> > more Ruby deliciousness, and I've got it working, except I want to
> compare a
> > variable to an array element (one of ["R", "P", "S"]) and have the
> program
> > die if it doesn't match up.
> >
> > Here's the relevant part of my script (note the rochambo function is
> defined
> > earlier in the script, and is really verbose, so I clipped it out):
> >
> > choices = %w{R P S}
> > puts "Your choice? R,P,S"
> > userchoice = gets.chomp.upcase
>
> raise unless choices.include?(userchoice)  # or something like that
>
>
> David
>
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