From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2007-09-30T17:42:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help getting user input

Peter Vanderhaden wrote:
>   print STDERR "Enter option: ";

The ruby equivalent of this would be  STDERR.print "Enter option: "  but why 
STDERR? That hardly looks like an error message to me.

>   chomp ($option = <STDIN>);

That would be  gets.chomp  or  STDIN.gets.chomp  if you want to make sure that 
you read from 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".

Your system is not supposed to recognize gets. If your ruby does not recognize
gets, there is something seriously wrong with your ruby installation.


HTH,
Sebastian
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