From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2010-02-11T15:09:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help with Code (Input Functionality)

Seebs wrote:
> On 2010-02-11, Michael Brodeur <mikejoebro@yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>> When I run the following code:
>>
>> puts 'What is your name?'
>> name = gets
>> puts 'What is your city?'
>> city = gets
>> puts 'What is your favorite color?'
>> color = gets
>> puts "Your name is #{name}.", "You live in #{city}.", "Your favorite
>> color is #{color}."
>>
>> ---------------------------------------
>>
>> The result I get in terminal is:
>>
>> ---------------------------------------
>>
>> Your name is (name input)
>>     
>
> Hmm, that's odd.  My quick trial produces the "expected" output.
>
> I would guess that, for reasons too subtle for me to guess, you're ending
> up with
> (puts "Your name is #{name}."), ("You live in #{city.}"), ("Your favorite
> color is #{color}.")
>
> rather than a single expression (a puts with three arguments), but I can't
> imagine why.
>
> -s
>   

Really? Because you shouldn't be (unless we have a different idea of 
what the expected output should be.)
The issue is that gets will return the EOL character, which is what is 
causing Michael's output to have a return prior to the period in each 
sentence.
In other words, you put in "Bob" as your name, followed by <enter>, 
which causes the program to received "Bob\n" as the input. As 
P.Raveendran points out, you probably want to remove that, by using 
chomp or strip.

-Justin