From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2009-05-06T22:28:45+09:00
Subject: Re: if string = "mike" then print "Hi mike"

Hi,

2009/5/6 Bigmac Turdsplash <i8igmac@aim.com>:
> Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> At Wed, 6 May 2009 10:43:23 +0900,
>> Bigmac Turdsplash wrote in [ruby-talk:335871]:
>>> so, im only a few days into ruby, im working on some tcp and there is a
>>> problem with my client.rb... if str == ???? this if statement is always
>>> skipped and im not sure why?
>>
>> #gets method returns a string with a newline if you ended the
>> input with enter.  You can chomp it or use double Ctrl-D
>> instead of enter.
>
> Oh, wow... a bit confused at first but then i googled ruby chomp and
> then it made sence, when you press enter \n
>
> if string.chomp == "mike"
>   print "hello mike\n"
>   system("calc.exe")
>
> # how can i execute calc.exe and continue with the script well calc is
> still running????
>
Try
system("start calc.exe")

Regards,
Park Heesob