From: clockwork@...
Date: 2007-08-04T02:58:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginner with a question.

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Awesome. Thanks.

Whats the difference between single and double quoted strings in ruby ?

On 8/3/07, Tim Pease <tim.pease@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/3/07, clockwork@sigsys.org <clockwork@sigsys.org> wrote:
> >
> > So what sort of silly syntactical error am I making ?
> >
>
> Ruby does not implicitly convert Integers into Strings. You need to
> explicitly tell Ruby this is what you are doing.
>
> puts "Try #{finalnum} instead"
>
> Inside double quoted strings, anything inside a #{ } delimiter is
> treated as Ruby code, and it is evaluated by the interpreter and
> converted into a string. So you could also write (as you did
> originally)
>
> puts "Try #{favnum + plus1} has the result."
>
> Hope that makes sense. Oh, and welcome to Ruby!
>
> Blessings,
> TwP
>
>

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