From: caof2005 <caof2005@...>
Date: 2007-04-11T16:20:12+09:00
Subject: Newbe - strange behavior of print

Hello folks,  this is the scenario:
I tried to run the following code in EasyEclipse for Ruby IDE and
SciTE on WinXP
Both has the same behavior.

def main
	print "Enter the number of employees: "
	numEmp = gets
	puts "The number of employees is:= " + numEmp.to_s
end

main

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The output is nothing ( it appears that the program hangs-on for a
while ), then if go to the console and I push the ENTER key it appears
the "Enter the number of employees: " and suddenly the program
terminates.

What I'm doing wrong?, I tried to follow the instructions from several
books ( David Black's "Ruby for Rails" and Dave Thomas "Programming
Ruby" ) and both indicates that the kind of code that I wrote should
work.

Any help would be very appreciated.
Regards