From: "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder@...>
Date: 2008-08-28T11:30:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Having a difficult time with Case statements.

Chris Bailey wrote:
> Michael W. Ryder wrote:
>> Chris Bailey wrote:
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Attachments:
>>> http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/2623/startup.rb
>>>
>> Looking at your code it looks like you need to remove the first case
>> statement and use something like a while loop.  From what I can see it
>> looks like when you select '2' it changes 'startstate' to 1 and then
>> exits the case statement.  An alternative is to set startstate in the
>> main program and then call startUp with the current startstate -- i.e. x
>> = startUp(startstate).  Then test x to see if you want to call startUp
>> again or exit the program.
> 
> Wrapped a call to startUp() into the main game loop and made startstate 
> global....it's working like a charm now! =) Thanks a billion!
> 

Glad to see you got it working.  I think what you were trying to do 
would have worked in C as the case statements keep executing until they 
hit a break.