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Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsIf else etc ... not working
Hello What is wrong with this code ? i tried cople of things but it doestn work. I want to make if the user input is male then output this , if is female output the other.
print "What is your name ?"
name = gets.chomp
name.capitalize!
puts "Hello #{name}!"
print " Are you male or female?"
gender = gets.chomp
if gender == "male"
print = " I have a car for you"
elsif gender == "female"
print = " I hae clothes for you"
end
2 Answers
Nathan Williams
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 6,851 PointsHi Aurelian,
The reason the result isn't printing is that you're assigning it as a variable, rather than calling the print method.
And for what it's worth, the way I'd generally see something like this done is with a case statement:
puts "What is your name ?"
name = gets.chomp
name.capitalize!
puts "Hello #{name}!"
puts " Are you male or female?"
gender = gets.chomp
case gender
when "male"
puts " I have a car for you"
when "female"
puts " I have clothes for you"
else
puts " Woops, we don't have anything for #{gender}"
end
notf0und
11,940 PointsYou're doing print =, which is assigning the string to the variable "print". Just leave out the equals and it should work :)
Also, your elsif statement doesn't have to be indented like that. In fact, it might be better if it's not, since indenting it might make it a nested elsif.
Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsAurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsAA i remember that on basics or somewhere in the ruby courses there was print the questoin and puts as output . I see here the code you made , uh well i dont remember learning case and when but ii know what it does apart from case . Thank you :) im trying to get my self amiliar to write this sort of different programs as a practice so i can move to next course and have everything easier . Thank you you all :) i look at this code.