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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Arrays Removing Items From Arrays

Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points
Posted by Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points

What's up with the console?

Hi. I don't know what's happened here.

Here's what I put in the console, along with error messages:

irb(main):001:0> grocery_list = ["milk", "eggs", "bread", "ice cream", "pie", pot
atoes"]                                                                          
irb(main):002:1" grocery_list = ["milk", "eggs", "bread", "ice cream", "pie", pot
atoes"]                                                                          
SyntaxError: (irb):1: syntax error, unexpected tSTRING_BEG, expecting keyword_do 
or '{' or '('                                                                    
..., "ice cream", "pie", potatoes"]                                              
...                               ^                                              
(irb):2: syntax error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting end-of-input            
grocery_list = ["milk", "eggs", "bread", "ice crea...                            
                     ^                                                           
        from /usr/local/bin/irb:11:in `<main>'                                   
irb(main):003:0> grocery_list = ["milk", "eggs", "bread", "ice cream", "pie", pot
atoes"]

I'd appreciate any help please.

1 Answer

rayorke
rayorke
27,709 Points

A simple typo - you missed the leading quotation mark for potatoes. It happens to the best of us! ;)

Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points
Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points

I see that now. Thanks. :-)