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Ruby Ruby Loops Build a Simple Contact List Methods That Return a Value

Posted by abdi ali
abdi ali
10,920 Points

help

Fill out the parse_answer method to return the answer passed in. If the kind is number, convert it to an integer using the to_i method before returning it.

ask.rb 
def parse_answer(answer, kind="string")
  if kind == "number"
    return answer.to_i
  end
end

2 Answers

Annie Scott
Annie Scott
27,613 Points
Annie Scott
Annie Scott
27,613 Points

def parse_answer(answer, kind="string") answer = answer.to_i if kind == "number" return answer end

Salman Akram
PLUS
Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points
Salman Akram
Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points

Hi Abdi,

Let me give you hints - @2:21, that question expects you to use between 3 and 4 lines in that video example.

Hope that it will passed it.

-Salman