From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2009-03-08T18:03:42+09:00
Subject: Re: I code my first ruby script, and it got problem!

Hi,

2009/3/8 Power One <arghx1@yahoo.com>:
> Hello folks!
>
> I'm totally new to Ruby.  For practice, I'm trying to code a very simple
> script that checks user's input for directory name, and then check to
> see if directory is exist, if not create it, and then clean it up by
> delete the created directory.
>
> Unfortunately, the script didn't create correct directory as it always
> attach a question-mark right behind a directory name that a user
> entered.  For ex:  if user enter directory /home/disney/land, instead of
> creating directory "land", the script creates a directory "land?".  How
> can I solve this problem?  You can see my script at
> http://pastie.org/410753.
You actually created directory not "land?" but "land\n"

The line # 5 of your code
  if @dirname = gets
should be
  if @dirname = gets.chomp


Regards,

Park Heesob