From: Karthikeyan A K <ak@...>
Date: 2010-06-01T10:10:15+09:00
Subject: Re: A complete beginners question

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puts 'What is your favourite number?'
number = gets.chomp
number = number.to_i # converts the number from String to Integer 
number+=1
puts 'Do you not think' + number + 'is a better number?'

On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 03:29 +0900, Ant Walliams wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> Sorry this is probably going to be a real easy question but I am totally
> new to programming.
> 
> I was following some tutorial online and at the end of the first chapter
> it said 'Now create a program that asks the user for a number and then
> suggests a higher number as a better option.
> 
> So what I wanted to happen below is it takes the users input and just
> adds 1 to it. But is is coming back with "rb:3:in '+' can't convert
> fixnum into string'
> 
> puts 'What is your favourite number?'
> number = gets.chomp
> number+=1
> puts 'Do you not think' + number + 'is a better number?'
> 
> Any help would be appreciated its doing my head in.
> 
> Thanks


Regards
A.K.Karthikeyan,
Prop. Mind As Lab
http://mindaslab.in

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