From: hal9000@...
Date: 2000-12-22T07:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7922] Re: beginner's problem

In article
<Pine.SUN.3.96.1001221101805.21846F-100000@grex.cyberspace.org>,
  John Rubinubi <rubinubi@cyberspace.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Where am I going wrong?
>
> st='x'
> #st=gets
> if st=='x'
>   puts 'it's x'
> else
>   puts 'not x'
> end
>
> as written it prints "it's x" as expected but if I take away the # and
> execute the st=gets line it's never x.
>
> Thanks,
> John

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HF


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