From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2008-08-27T21:59:15+09:00
Subject: Re: syntax error, unexpected kELSE

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Chris Bailey
<christopher.sean.bailey@gmail.com> 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++

Ruby doesn't support this syntax. Change it to z += 1.

>    else
>        buf = buf + "\n"
>        z = 0
>    end
>      end
>  end
>  puts buf
>    end
> end

Hope this helps,

Jesus.