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Ruby Ruby Operators and Control Structures Logical Operators The Or (||) Operator

Posted by Carl Smith
Carl Smith
8,185 Points

Can't figure this one out, it's just telling me the "YES" statement is not valid?

Not sure what I'm doing wrong?

ruby.rb 
def valid_command?(command)
  if(command = "y") || (command = "yes") 
   elsif (command = "Y") || (command = "YES")
  end
end
Carl Smith
Carl Smith
8,185 Points

I figured it out. Usually I try at it for a good hour before submitting a question. Seems as soon as I submit a question, I figure it out.

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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To begin with you can write most of that on one line. The exercise asks you to return a value of true if any of those are true. But you never return a value at all. See my code for some clarification on what I mean.

def valid_command?(command)
    if(command = "y") || (command = "yes") || (command = "Y") || (command = "YES")
      return true
    end
end
Carl Smith
Carl Smith
8,185 Points

That's exactly what I wrote and passed it right before you commented. This same thing happened to me earlier. Thank you for responding, this place is AWESOME!