Hi --

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Gregor Kopp wrote:

> 1.) if you do a .to_i to num, you dont need to chomp it.
> 2.) if you make 'num'.to_i you try to transform the string num into integer. 
> it should be num.to_i, because you want the value of num and not "num".
> 3.) #{expression} in string will be replaced with its value in that string.
> try

And of course there's always:

   puts "What's you're favorite number?"
   puts "This is better: #{gets.to_i + 1}"

:-)


David

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