From: Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>
Date: 2007-08-04T02:08:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginner with a question.

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When you are defining the one variable in the script are you defining it as
a string?  i.e. var = "3"

On 8/3/07, clockwork@sigsys.org <clockwork@sigsys.org> wrote:
>
> 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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