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Ruby Ruby Loops Ruby Loops Loop Conditionals

Henry Dashwood
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Henry Dashwood
Courses Plus Student 4,336 Points

Help with Ruby Conditionals

I feel like most of this is correct but I'm not sure what it means when it talks about assigning "def get_answer" things. Any explanation of where I've gone wrong would be much appreciated.

loop.rb
# Assume get_answer() is already defined
loop do
  answer = gets.chomp
  if answer == "e"
    break
  end
end

1 Answer

Henry Dashwood
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Henry Dashwood
Courses Plus Student 4,336 Points

No worries. It was my second line that was wrong. It should say:

answer = get_answer()

I didn't realise that get_answer was already a variable and that I should assign answer to it.