From: botp Date: 2009-07-17T12:52:39+09:00 Subject: Re: Need Help with a Very, Very Simple Program On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:39 AM, John wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Max Norman wrote: >> I'm almost an absolute novice in Ruby; it is my first language and I > .... > number = gets.chomp > better = number.to_i + 1 > > puts "#{better}... That's better." > to the OP: you could try playing (just for ruby fun) w the above code; make it a one-liner, eg: puts "#{gets.to_i + 1}... That's better." kind regards -botp