From: Harry <ruby.hardware@...>
Date: 2007-02-03T05:37:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading several data entries per line from screen

On 2/3/07, Alex DeCaria <alex.decaria@millersville.edu> wrote:
> Is there a single, easy method in Ruby that will let me read multiple
> numbers from the screen directly into multiple variables?
>
> For instance, say I have two variable called "age" and "weight", and
> query the user to enter them on the same line.  In FORTRAN I'd just say
>
> READ(*,*) age, weight
>
>
>

Is this what you are looking for?

name, age, weight = gets.split(/,/)
puts name
puts age
puts weight



Harry
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