From: Reiichi Reiichi Date: 2010-03-01T17:23:29+09:00 Subject: Easy question about gets (sorry my bad english) I am a beginner and in an exercise the one who run the program must insert his birth date and the program must says if today is his birthday or not. In C to do this I can do (I jump a part of code): printf("Insert your birth day (DD MM YYYY): "); scanf("%d%d%d",&db,&mb,&yb); printf("Insert the current day (DD MM YYYY): "); scanf("%d%d%d",&dc,&mc,&yc); (db = day birth; mb = month birth; dc = day current etc.) And the rest of the code is not important for what I want to ask. So, and in Ruby? I must use gets each time for any of DD, MM, and YYYY separately? There will be 6 gets, so many lines of code, is there any way to use just 1 time gets for all the date like in C? Or some other way to write less code? Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.