From: Julian Leviston <julian@...>
Date: 2012-09-07T14:51:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Doing math in Ruby

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On 07/09/2012, at 11:52 AM, "Jon M." <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> Hello everybody. I am new to Ruby and understand the bare minimum of
> basic concepts. I was wondering if there was a way to take the input of
> a user (supposedly a mathematical equation) and return the answer. For
> example, if I started the Ruby script in my Terminal, is there a way
> that I would be able to type in 1+2 and get a returned answer of 3?
> Something I tried was:
> 
> puts "Enter Equation"
> answervar = gets.chomp
> doneans = answervar.to_i
> puts doneans
> 
> Yet, all that did was return the first number of the equation. Any help
> or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
> 
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