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Ruby Ruby Loops Build a Simple Contact List Methods That Return a Value

Patrick Mockridge
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Patrick Mockridge
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Posted by Patrick Mockridge
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Patrick Mockridge
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 45,611 Points

What's wrong with my code?

I'm not sure where I'm going wrong here

ask.rb 
def parse_answer(answer, kind="string")
  answer = gets.chomp
  answer = answer.to_i if kind == "number"
  return answer
end

1 Answer

Abigail Glunn
Abigail Glunn
10,068 Points

Hi Patrick! Your code is perfectly valid, looks like they just want it without taking in user input (gets.chomp)... the below passes:

def parse_answer(answer, kind="string")
  answer = answer.to_i if kind == "number"
  return answer
end

Hope that helps, please vote best answer if this resolves your question... thank you! : D