From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-08-27T21:58:16+09:00
Subject: Re: syntax error, unexpected kELSE

Hi --

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Chris Bailey wrote:

> I've been trying to solve the problem in the following bit of code for
> quite some time now with no luck. The unexpected kELSE error is occuring
> in the commented line. $map is a multi-dimensional array and the
> makeshift iterator works properly without the if/else statement. Any
> ideas?
>
> def pmap
>    input = gets.downcase.chomp
>    if input == "exit"
>  $plrObj.save
>  puts "Exiting..."
>  $running = false
>    else
>  buf = ""
>  z = 0
>  $map.each do |x|
>      x.each do |y|
>    if z < 5
>        buf = buf + y.to_s
>        z++

There's no ++ increment operator. Change that to z += 1.


David

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