From: Lucas Holland <hollandlucas@...>
Date: 2006-12-20T03:02:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with string comparison

Lucas Holland wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The following code:
> 
> name = gets.comp.to_s
> if name == "Bill" or name == "Steve"
>   puts "Wow, you're pretty smart!"
> end
> 
> yields this error, once executed:
> 
> NoMethodError: undefined method ‘comp’ for "Bill":String
> 
> What is wrong with the code?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> chell


I've found the problem. Apparently, you can't explicitly convert 
gets.chomp to a string (it is a string anyways, eh?), so name = 
gets.chomp will do fine!

chell

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