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When I Run what I’ve entered, the first question prompts for an answer, which I then type and hit enter. Once I hit enter, all the other questions appear at once without spaces to answer them individually. What am I missing? Shouldn’t it prompt for each question in turn?
Code I’ve written:
print “What’s your first name?”
first_name=gets.chomp
print “What’s your last name?”
last_name=gets.chomp
print “What city were you born in?”
city=gets.chomp
print “What state were you born in?”
state=gets.chomp
Output after I enter my first name:
What’s your last name?What city were you born in?What state were you born in?
I had this problem as well. I just refreshed my browser or closed out of codeA and logged back in. When I did this everything started working properly.
Hello,
I got the same problem on my MacOS10.14/AppleKB/Opera(uptodate)
First, at the prompt, my answear “first name” is not print as i write it. Still the prompt.
Then with the cmd+return the question disappears. Only the prompt remains.
After a while, i got “execution expired” and the prompt.
Some times i got all the question on a single line
Some times i got
“execution expired
What is your last name ?”
without any prompt after the second question.
I can’t hint the next button as it stay greyed
I try to close every thing, do the opera update, change for safari,firefox,chrome. reboot…
It is weird.
If someone has a solution to that i would be grateful
TY!! this helped me a bunch, for everyone still confused you just have to add the extra line (using her example) after last name city and state and once you answer in the black space you will need to press enter twice after those specifically. It basically just creates more space after the questions.
print “Whats’s your first name?”
first_name = gets.chomp
print “What’s your last name?”
last_name = gets.chomp
print “Which city are you from?”
city = gets.chomp
print “Which state are you from(abbreviation)?”
state = gets.chomp.upcase
I’ve tried all the input versions mentioned on this FAQ and I’m still getting told that I haven’t completed all tasks. Can anybody provide the answer please, as the last answer provided on this chat didn’t work for me
When I click the ‘Run’ button on any parts of this exercise it just keeps loading. I am unable to enter any input in the Terminal. After a while it says ‘Execution Expired’.
I have tried code from others above that say their’s works and i get the same issue so it isn’t my code.
Have logged out and back in. Restarted my computer.
Any ideas? Anyone else having the same issue?
My code just in case for step 3:
print "What's your first name? "
first_name = gets.chomp
print "What's your last name? "
last_name = gets.chomp
print "What city are you from? "
city = gets.chomp
print "What state are you from? (Please use abbreviated form e.g. NY for New York) "
state = gets.chomp
Just ran the exercise. You are correct that after clicking “Run”, the exercise appears to be stuck loading. But, it still works.
Click the “Run” button. The first prompt will appear in the terminal. Ignore the loading. Click on the terminal window and start typing. If you take too long to enter input, you will get “Execution Expired” message.
As an example I used this code to get this working below for Repeat for More Input and Printing the Output Sections.
puts at the end gives statement, Your last name is Wilkinson and you’re from Wellington, WGTN!
Please note that we don’t have states where I am from, just provinces.
print "What's your last name? "
last_name = gets.chomp
last_name.capitalize!
print "What city are you from? "
city = gets.chomp
city.capitalize!
print "What province are you from (you can provide an abbreviation for the province, such as WGTN for Wellington if you want to) ?"
province = gets.chomp
province.upcase!
puts "Your last name is #{last_name} and you're from #{city}, #{province}!"
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