From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-09-30T11:36:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help getting user input


On Sep 29, 2007, at 8:28 PM, Peter Vanderhaden wrote:

> I'm trying to learn Ruby and trying to convert a Perl program at the
> same time.  I need to prompt a user to enter a number to select a
> processing option.  In Perl, I did it this way:
>
> #
>   print STDERR "Enter option: ";
>   chomp ($option = <STDIN>);
> #
>
> I've searched the web and several books, but I haven't found anything
> that works.  It also seems that my system doesn't recognize  
> "gets".  Can
> anyone help me out, and maybe post a simple input routine I can  
> look at?
> Thanks....
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
The usual basic thing is:

puts "Enter option:"
option = gets.chomp


If your system isn't recognizing gets, then you've got some other  
problem that should be fixed before writing much code.