From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2007-04-11T16:24:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbe - strange behavior of print

caof2005 wrote:
> 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
> 
> ====================
> 
> 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.
> 

Have you, per chance, tried to invoke your script from the command line?
I know that SciTE needs to be patched in one way or another to allow for 
input. I can't judge Eclipse in that regard, as I don't use it.

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Phillip "CynicalRyan" Gawlowski
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