Setting Up the 'if' Branch, part 1

#1

what is wrong with my code??

print "user_input"
user_input = gets.chomp.downcase!
if user_input.include? "s"
print "OK"
end

It keeps telling me to try again your code doesn't looks quite right.

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4. Setting Up the "if" Branch, Part 1 -- What is wrong ?:c
#2

Hi,

You need to input something in the console when you are prompted to do so. Also, remove the ! in the second line. It will return nil if your input string is already downcase.

#3

yaaaaaaayyyyy thank you so much!!!

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#4

we were told to put the line as user_input = gets.chomp.downcase! to make any S / s they input be converted to a lower case s. Why / when / how are we supposed to determine when we need to remove this? how do we deal with them inputting an "S" afterwards?

#5

Hi czglory, technically, from the exercises 2 and 3, I can see that you were told to put the line:

Exercise 2

Declare a variable called user_input and set it equal to the user's input using gets.chomp.

user_input = gets.chomp

Exercise 3

Call the .downcase! method on user_input.

user_input.downcase!

So, the complete code is:

user_input = gets.chomp
user_input.downcase!

which is correct and the original poster squalo had a different code.

Hope that helps! :slightly_smiling:

#6

Hey

my code is
print "City?"
user_input = gets.chomp
user_input.downcase!

if unser_input.include? "S"
print "OK"
end

and for some reason I cannot figure out what it's supposed to be. You guys have an answer?

thanks

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#7

Then why does the example code at the beginning of the lesson not follow this more correct code? Seems like an error in their lesson?

#8

Hello, the first lesson, is following the same first two lines of code as I have written.

Exercise code:

// print is unnecessary
user_input = gets.chomp
user_input.downcase!

What I had written:

user_input = gets.chomp
user_input.downcase!
#10

I am having a similar issue as the rest of you and still have not figured out the solution.

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@felixlienau check the spelling in your code.

#11

Very late to reply to this but you put unser_input not user_input

#12

Hi, recently started with code academy my problem is that:

print "hi hows it going?"
user_input = gets.chomp.
user_input.downcase!

if user_input.include? "s"
print "this contains an s awesome!"

end

typing "sok" in console returns: "undefined method `user_input' for "s":String"

not sure what im doing wrong,

lowell

#13

fixed!

retyped all my code without a space between include? and "s"... sorted!

#14