From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2007-03-31T04:57:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie needs a pointer

dwyer@o2.ie wrote:
> #a continous loop until 'q' is press
> puts "Please enter your name?"
> name=gets
> while (name!='q')
> 	puts "welcome, #{name}Enter your name again:"
> 	name=gets
>
> end

After name=gets name contains the string that the user typed including the 
enter. So if the user enters 'q', the value of name is "q\n". You can remove 
the \n with the chomp method (i.e. use name=gets.chomp instead of name=gets).

HTH,
Sebastian
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