FAQ: Control Flow in Ruby - Unless

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This community-built FAQ covers the “Unless” exercise from the lesson “Control Flow in Ruby”.

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hi
sometimes i use the print function with parenthesis.
how to combine parenthesis with the use of “unless”? i always get an error
thank

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Can you help me understand why I am not being able to print ‘Houston we have a problem’ even though I type in false when I am prompt?

print "True or False? "
problem = gets.chomp

unless problem
print “Houston we have a problem”
else
print “Not a problem!”
end

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You are trying to compare a string input (“true”) to a boolean (true)
to make this work, turn the input into lowercase and compare it to the string “true” or “false” instead.

print "True or False? "
problem = gets.chomp
problem.downcase!

unless problem == "true"
print “Houston we have a problem”
else
print “Not a problem!”
end
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