From: Jan Friedrich <frdrch@...>
Date: 2007-03-16T06:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: chomp

Corey Konrad schrieb:
> Nexos wrote:
> The author of the book emplains that in order to make chomp work with a 
> variable the way i did i would have to do it like this
> 
> print "Please enter the temperature: "
> temp = gets
> $_ = temp
> chomp
> temp = $_
> puts "The temperature is #{temp}."
> 
> i just dont understand why the author would make things so convoluted 
> like that.
Which book from which author? Buy another book!

regards
Jan