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Ruby Ruby Basics (Retired) Ruby Methods Methods in Ruby

Gaoyuan Chen
Gaoyuan Chen
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Posted by Gaoyuan Chen
Gaoyuan Chen
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what's the difference between puts and print in ruby?

I found that both of them can print out the result and when I use print instead of puts, it showed me "Adding 2 and 57" something instead of "Adding 2 and 2"

3 Answers

James Gill
James Gill
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TL;DR: puts adds a new line (after each argument); print does not. That's all.

A X
A X
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James Gill: Can you expand on what the vocab word line means? Or can you use an example?

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A X
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Whew! For me Maciej, that's a lot of text to weed through!

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James Gill
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James Gill
James Gill
Courses Plus Student 34,936 Points

@abbymann "line" means a new line, like pressing Enter/Return on the keyboard.

So: "print" prints the string and stops at the end of it; "puts" prints the string, then places the cursor on the next (blank) line.