From: Rob Biedenharn <rob@...>
Date: 2013-03-28T13:20:43+09:00
Subject: Re: 99 Bottle of Beer program



On Mar 28, 2013, at 12:12 AM, Vincent Stowbunenko <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> See attached for the source code.  This program works fine, just except
> one thing.  At the last lines, it looks like this:
> 
> ...
> 2 bottles of beer on the wall, 2 bottles of beer.
> Take one down, pass it around, 1 bottles of beer on the wall.
> 1 bottle of beer on the wall, 1 bottle of beer.
> If that one bottle should happen to fall, what a waste of alcohol!
> Take one down, pass it around, no more bottles of beer on the wall.
> No more bottles of beer on the wall, no more bottles of beer.
> Go to the store and buy some more, 99 bottles of beer on the wall.
> 
> I used #{s} to add "s" if bottles are more than one.  But on that 2nd
> line, it doesn't seem to remove the "s" from the bottle word, even the
> number_of_bottles equals to 1 (or is it?).  Can anyone explain why?

You set s once *outside* the loop.

> 
> Attachments:
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/8272/bottlesofbeer.rb
> 
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