From: clockwork@...
Date: 2007-08-04T01:48:47+09:00
Subject: Beginner with a question.

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So I am new to ruby, and I seem to be stuck on a seemingly simple problem. I
have two variable's, one that is defined in the script, and one that is
grabbed from input. I can add them together just fine, but I have not come
up with a way to put the addition statement inline with strings. For
instance:

         puts favnum.to_i + plus1.to_i

Works producing the expected result. However when I try something like this:

         puts 'Try ' + favnum + plus1 + ' has the result.'

I get errors. I have tried declaring the variables as integers, and tried
various syntax's on that line, but the solution is escaping me and I have
not found a good way to do this. I would also be willing to do a variable to
define the item I want to add into the line, such as:

        finalnum = favnum.to_i + plus1.to_i

But that doesnt produce the desired result either as the following doesnt
work:

        puts 'Try '+ finalnum +' instead.'

In both cases I also tried forcing .to_i but that didnt help. (though doing
a "puts finalnum" works.)

So what sort of silly syntactical error am I making ?

(Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this, it seemed like my best
bet.)

~Clockwork

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