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Ruby Ruby Operators and Control Structures Ruby Operators Less Than

James Matthews
James Matthews
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Posted by James Matthews
James Matthews
21,610 Points

Less Than Challenge Code?

Challenge Task: Use the less than operator to determine whether the variable b is less than the variable a

Surely this is the correct piece of code?

"b" < "a"

1 Answer

Kevin Elliott
Kevin Elliott
15,653 Points
Kevin Elliott
Kevin Elliott
15,653 Points

No, that is not correct. Your code has b and a as String Literals. They should be Object Instances.

Examples of String Literals:

  • "Hello."
  • "What are you doing?"
  • "b"
  • "a"

Examples of Object Instances:

  • my_object
  • file
  • someObject
  • b
  • a

Change them to object instances and you will pass.