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Ruby

Posted by Hippocrates Lychros
Hippocrates Lychros
6,258 Points

extra credit / evaluating number of name characters

Dear All Yesterday I decided to discover Ruby. So after completing the first stage I tried to go through the extra credit task, about writing a simple program that outputs the number of characters of the name a user submits. Doing some research I found out that there exists a length method that does exactly that. However , the result I get is always incremented by one character, ie if I type the name 'John' instead of returning a value of 4 it returns 5. Any suggestions?

Thank you Hippocrates

1 Answer

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

You forgot to use chomp, to cut off the new line character, e.g. the enter key.

You can read more about chomp in the online book Learn to Program.

Hippocrates Lychros
Hippocrates Lychros
6,258 Points

Thank you James, your advice solved the problem!!