From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2010-03-26T12:13:08+09:00
Subject: Re: end of sentience has ? y/n, if n please use one "string?"=o.k.

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:32 AM, jamison edmonds <jamison2000e@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello all
>
> Still new to programing.
> I'm making a magic 8 ball clone, for fun and to learn by, console based for now. :)
>
> ***
> I need a few good examples on how to detect if input has a question mark at the end (more than one example/explanation preferably.)
>
> So, I GETS a question in my .rb and if "string?" o.k. else I'd like to say, need a question with a ? mark at end please.
> ***
>
> At <http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/>
> [
> Ruby is...            # Output "I love Ruby"
> ----------------          say = "I love Ruby"
> e pluribus            puts say
> unum, and such
> :)                        # Output "I *LOVE* RUBY"
>                           say['love'] = "*love*"
>                           puts say.upcase
>
>                           # Output "I *love* Ruby"
>                           # five times
>                           5.times { puts say }
> ]
> I see I can brake string's into parts, this may help me rite?
>
> Ruby rocks, thanks to all.

require 'readline'

puts "You will be talking to the awesome 8ball, type Control-d to
finish your conversation."

while line = Readline.readline('> ', true)
  if line.end_with?('?')
    puts "Consider it carefully."
  else
    puts "How about you ask some question?"
  end
end


-- 
Michael Fellinger
CTO, The Rubyists, LLC