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Ruby Ruby Loops Ruby Loops Loop Conditionals

Juan Ordaz
Juan Ordaz
12,012 Points
Posted by Juan Ordaz
Juan Ordaz
12,012 Points

Don't understand the instructions.

Instructions are confusing...Is say assign the value of the method to the variable "answer", and I did it at the beginning, so I am just confuse..

loop.rb 
# Assume get_answer() is already defined
loop do 
  answer = ""
  answer = get_answer
  print "Enter (e) to exit the loop"
  answer = gets.chomp
  if answer == "e"
    break
  end
end

1 Answer

Michael Prince
Michael Prince
23,132 Points
Michael Prince
Michael Prince
23,132 Points

Juan,

Your code above is almost correct, you just have an extra line that you don't want. The first line of your loop is assigning to the variable answer an empty string. The second line of the loop is assigning the variable answer the value of the get_answer() method. Then on the fourth line of your loop you are changing the value of the variable answer again with answer = gets.chomp Remove that fourth line and your code will pass.