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Start your free trialRohit Priyadarshi
5,236 PointsHow to solve this
why it is giving me an error
def parse_answer(answer, kind="string")
if kind == "number"
answer.to_i
else
answer
end
end
puts "What is your name?"
answer = gets.chomp
finalAnswer = parse_answer(answer)
puts Answer
1 Answer
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Pointstry usingfinalAnswer
instead of answer
as the argument for puts
at the very end. You're trying to output the wrong variable. :-)