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

MacKenzie T. Stout
MacKenzie T. Stout
23,972 Points
Posted by MacKenzie T. Stout
MacKenzie T. Stout
23,972 Points

Ruby Loops - Methods That Return a Value; this is a bummer

I can't figure out what I'm missing about this challenge!?!

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

1 Answer

William Li
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William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

Hi MacKenzie Stout

Overall your solution is right, only problem here is that the challenge didn't ask for accepting user input, therefore, line 2 should be deleted.

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

Hope it helps.

MacKenzie T. Stout
MacKenzie T. Stout
23,972 Points
MacKenzie T. Stout
MacKenzie T. Stout
23,972 Points

Thank you! I felt confident in the solution and couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong.