From: Bruce Wayner <winshocker@...>
Date: 2010-08-08T17:11:29+09:00
Subject: Loops

Hi, I'm only a newbie on ruby could someone help me with my code:
Here's: I'm writing a program which will ask the user to input a word or
typed goodbye to quit the program. The first part is done the problems
is that how can i find the longest word?
example:
Type a word (or goodbye to quit): Hello
Type a word (or goodbye to quit): Hello Hello
Type a word (or goodbye to quit): goodbye

The longest word is “Hello Hello”

can someone help me with my simple program?

Code:
loop do
puts "Type a word ( or goodbye to quit):"
$_ = gets.chomp

break if $_ == "goodbye"

end

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http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/4923/test.rb

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