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

Rohit Priyadarshi
Rohit Priyadarshi
5,236 Points
Posted by Rohit Priyadarshi
Rohit Priyadarshi
5,236 Points

How to solve this

why it is giving me an error

ask.rb 
def parse_answer(answer, kind="string")
  if kind == "number"
    answer.to_i
  else
    answer
  end
end
puts "What is your name?"
answer = gets.chomp

finalAnswer = parse_answer(answer)
puts Answer

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

try usingfinalAnswer instead of answer as the argument for puts at the very end. You're trying to output the wrong variable. :-)