gets
returns the entire string entered, including the newline, so when they type “M” and press enter the string you get back is "M\n"
. To get rid of the trailing newline, use String#chomp
, i.e replace your first line with answer = gets.chomp
.
More Related Contents:
- Very Basic Ruby puts and gets
- Double vs single quotes
- Why use symbols as hash keys in Ruby?
- What does %w(array) mean?
- Ruby function to remove all white spaces?
- What’s the difference between a string and a symbol in Ruby?
- How to check whether a string contains a substring in Ruby
- Why is the shovel operator (
- What is the easiest way to remove the first character from a string?
- Backslashes in single quoted strings vs. double quoted strings
- Ruby 1.9 Array.to_s behaves differently?
- Extract a substring from a string in Ruby using a regular expression
- Which style of Ruby string quoting do you favour?
- String interpolation in Ruby doesn’t work?
- Measure the distance between two strings with Ruby?
- Read binary file as string in Ruby
- to_s vs. to_str (and to_i/to_a/to_h vs. to_int/to_ary/to_hash) in Ruby
- Why do two strings separated by space concatenate in Ruby?
- Convert unicode codepoint to string character in Ruby
- Ruby: Merging variables in to a string
- Split string by multiple delimiters
- What is the use case for Ruby’s %q / %Q quoting methods?
- What is the opposite of string.next?
- Test if variable matches any of several strings w/o long if-elsif chain, or case-when
- What is the best way to split a string to get all the substrings by Ruby?
- Why can I refer to a variable outside of an if/unless/case statement that never ran?
- diff a ruby string or array
- How does the magic comment ( # Encoding: utf-8 ) in ruby work?
- How do I temporarily redirect stderr in Ruby?
- Using layouts in HAML files independently of Rails