Problem with string comparison

[Lucas Holland]

Hi!

The following code:

name = gets.comp.to_s
if name == "Bill" or name == "Steve"
puts "Wow, you're pretty smart!"
end

yields this error, once executed:

NoMethodError: undefined method ‘comp’ for "Bill":String

What is wrong with the code?

Thanks in advance,

chell

 

[Brad Phelan]

Hi!

The following code:

name = gets.comp.to_s
if name == "Bill" or name == "Steve"
puts "Wow, you're pretty smart!"
end

yields this error, once executed:

NoMethodError: undefined method ‘comp’ for "Bill":String

What is wrong with the code?

Thanks in advance,

chell

Try

name = gets.chomp

 

[hemant]

Hi!

The following code:

name = gets.comp.to_s
if name == "Bill" or name == "Steve"
puts "Wow, you're pretty smart!"
end

yields this error, once executed:

NoMethodError: undefined method 'comp' for "Bill":String

What is wrong with the code?

Thanks in advance,

Because comp method is not defined for String class, probably what you
want is chomp and you don't need a to_s in the end.

 

[Lucas Holland]

Hi!

The following code:

name = gets.comp.to_s
if name == "Bill" or name == "Steve"
puts "Wow, you're pretty smart!"
end

yields this error, once executed:

NoMethodError: undefined method ‘comp’ for "Bill":String

What is wrong with the code?

Thanks in advance,

chell

I've found the problem. Apparently, you can't explicitly convert
gets.chomp to a string (it is a string anyways, eh?), so name =
gets.chomp will do fine!

chell