From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2006-11-07T02:54:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby script auto-closes at completion

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Don't run it from Explorer.

Start -> Run -> 'cmd', then navigate to the folder you want and type 'ruby
your_script.rb'.

Jason

On 11/6/06, John Tar <zhkbaq@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I am a newbie. I am trying to run some small ruby programs to learn a
> bit about ruby.
>
> everytime i run the following program in windows it auto closes when it
> is done, so there is no time to see the final result
>
> is there any way to allow it to just freeze and not autoclose...the way
> i was doing it,is by putting a gets at the end....but i am sure there is
> a better way
>
> thanks
>
> john
>
> code:
>
>
> puts 'what is you first name?'
> name = gets.chomp
> a=name.length.to_i
> puts a
>
> puts 'what is you midlle name?'
> mname=gets.chomp
> b=mname.length.to_i
> puts b
>
> puts 'what is you last midlle name?'
> lname=gets.chomp
> c=lname.length.to_i
> puts c
>
> d=a+b+c
>
> puts  'there are ' + d.to_s + ' characters in your name:' +
> mname.swapcase
>
>
>
>
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