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Ruby

rdaniels
rdaniels
27,258 Points
Posted by rdaniels
rdaniels
27,258 Points

Methods that Return a Value in Ruby Track

I'm doing the Code Challenge in the "Methods that Return a Value". The first portion of the code is given. The instruction are: Fill out the parse_answer method to return the answer passed in. If the kind is number, convert it to an integer using the to_i method before returning it.

My attempt is:

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

Not sure what/why it is not working... any help will be appreciated!

1 Answer

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points

I think you have the right idea, but you're getting your input from the wrong place. In your method, you're calling gets.chomp and operating on that. However, this is not what the question is asking. The question asks you to operate on the answer variable that is passed to the method, which you can work on without assigning it first. In other words, all you need to do is delete the first line of your method, and I believe it will work, like this:

def parse_answer(answer, kind="string")
  answer = answer.to_i if kind=="number"
  return answer
end
rdaniels
rdaniels
27,258 Points
rdaniels
rdaniels
27,258 Points

Thank you very much. I worked on that one for too long and couldn't get it. Your answer was "spot on"!