From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-01-09T12:02:29+09:00
Subject: Re: prompt

Hi --

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, TOTO wrote:

> Brennan Leathers <digibren@mac.com> wrote in message news:<67484A65-232D-11D7-9C75-000393C4FE10@mac.com>...
> > On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 10:34  AM, TOTO wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a Ruby idiom to do prompting? For example,
> > >
> > > ../rm.rb: remove `t'? y
> >
> > also, couldn't you do this with the readline module?
> >
> > brennan
>
> gets doesn't work. I tried it at the beginning. I think the problem is
> that it  Reads the *next* ``line'' from the I/O stream. (So it can't
> read the string following the question mark.)
>
>
> And I thought that readline was simular to gets:  Reads a line as with
>  IO#gets  , but raises an EOFError on end of file.
>
> However, it turns out ok. That is quite strange.

There must be something else going on with your use of gets.  It
should work as expected.  Try running this:

  print "Enter a word: "
  w = gets
  puts "You typed #{w}"


Or if you want to go nuts with interpolation:

  puts "You typed #{print "Enter a word: "; gets}"

:-)


David

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