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Ruby Ruby Loops Build a Simple Contact List Assigning Hash Values From Methods

Posted by Harun Gunes
Harun Gunes
4,545 Points

Hello, I didn not understand the meaning "return" here. Could you please help me?

I simply have no solution for this task. Help please

contact.rb 
contact_list = []

def get_name
  contact = {"name" => "", "phone_number" => "" }
    return contact["name"]
end

get_name()

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

The instructions tell you that the get_name method is defined "Elsewhere in the program", so you don't need to define it here.

All you need to do for task 1 is to call that method to assign the value of the "name" key.

Hint: it won't require any new lines of code, your changes will replace the first empty string.