From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2007-03-31T04:16:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie needs a pointer

your string to quit has garbage (like a \n or somefin) at the end.
A little function like this may help

def same(somestring)
  input=gets
  if somestring==input
    puts "Same"
  else
    puts "#{input}!=#{somestring}"
  end
end

That will show what you're already seeing.  So add a .length..
def same(somestring)
  input=gets
  if somestring==input
    puts "Same"
  else
    puts "#{input}!=#{somestring}"
    puts "input.length=#{input.length}"
    puts "somestring.length=#{somestring.length}"
  end
end

Humm....
so what do we do?  strip.
you _could_ do

input=input.strip

But that's not fun.  Use a bang at the end of common functions to use
the dangerous destructive fun version :) usually a ! changes the
object itself

so input.strip!

def same(somestring)
  input=gets
  input.strip!
  if somestring==input
    puts "Same"
  else
    puts "#{input}!=#{somestring}"
    puts "input.length=#{input.length}"
    puts "somestring.length=#{somestring.length}"
  end
end

Does that help?