From: Wybo Dekker <wybo@...>
Date: 2010-03-01T18:07:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Easy question about gets

require 'scanf'
def getdate(s)
   print s
   $stdout.flush
   d,m,y = scanf("%d%d%d")
end

d,m,y = getdate("Your birthday? ")

p d,m,y


Reiichi Reiichi wrote:
> (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!

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Wybo