From: seebs@... (Peter Seebach)
Date: 2007-07-19T11:44:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie looking for help: Determining Gender

In message <20070719030031.0E69412A538@mx3.delmonte-phil.com>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pe=F1a=2C_Botp?= 
writes:
>sexCheckH = Hash.new
>sexCheckH = {  "m" => "male",
>               "f" => "female"
>            }

It seems to me that you have just replaced your empty Hash.new object with a
brand new object.

>doseSexS = nil
>until doseSexS do
>   puts 'What gender is your patient? Please enter m or f'
>   doseSexS = sexCheckH[ptSexS = gets.chomp.downcase]
>   puts "Invalid entry [#{ptSexS}]. Pls retry" unless doseSexS
>end
>puts "Your patient is a #{doseSexS}."

This looks like it should work, though.

-s